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拍品專文
Jacques-Laurent Agasse was born in Geneva in 1767. He moved to London in 1800, where he became well known for his sporting themes. During his early years in London he exhibited widely with paintings appearing at the Royal Academy, the British Institute and the 'Old' Society of Painters in Water-Colours as well as at the Liverpool Academy.
In his later years the impetus to exhibit seems to have subsided, the present picture appearing at the Royal Academy in 1842 after an absence of 10 years. One of his last entries to the Royal Academy, it is entered in his record book as 'The Fish shop. 3/4'. No fishmonger by the name of 'John Young & Sons' is listed in the London Street directories in the early nineteenth century. There was, however, a 'Leonard Young', a butcher, in Hungerford Market in 1840, and also a 'John Young & Son, scalemakers to her majesty' at 5½ Bear Street, Leicester Square.
Although best known as a sporting and animal painter, Agasse also painted portraits and views of London. As well as conventional views, some of these included an element of genre, such as The Contrast, painted in 1829, and set in Hungerford Market.
In his later years the impetus to exhibit seems to have subsided, the present picture appearing at the Royal Academy in 1842 after an absence of 10 years. One of his last entries to the Royal Academy, it is entered in his record book as 'The Fish shop. 3/4'. No fishmonger by the name of 'John Young & Sons' is listed in the London Street directories in the early nineteenth century. There was, however, a 'Leonard Young', a butcher, in Hungerford Market in 1840, and also a 'John Young & Son, scalemakers to her majesty' at 5½ Bear Street, Leicester Square.
Although best known as a sporting and animal painter, Agasse also painted portraits and views of London. As well as conventional views, some of these included an element of genre, such as The Contrast, painted in 1829, and set in Hungerford Market.