BY WILLIAM HAYES, DATED 16TH JUNE 1760

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A GEORGE III EMBOSSED BIRD AND LIZARD PICTURE
By William Hayes, dated 16th June 1760
Painted with cranes, a lizard and a songbird in an elaborate landscape and inscribed lower right 'W Hayes 16th June 1760', in a later cardboard mount and black and gilt-moulded slip frame, minor restorations to body colour
19¼ x 15¼ in. (49 x 39 cm.)

Provenance

Bought from Norman Adams, May 1974.

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Lot Essay

Like Samuel Dixon and Isaac Spackman, the ornithological artist William Hayes (1735-1802) appears to have been principally inspired by George Edwards's Natural History of Uncommon Birds, 1743-51. Hayes later published his own Natural History of British Birds etc., with their Portraits accurately drawn and beautifully coloured from nature, over a long period later in the century.

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