A PROUD STAG

Details

SAMUEL JOHN CARTER (1835-1892)
A PROUD STAG
signed 'Sam Carter' (lower right)
oil on canvas
34 x 44 in. (86.4 x 111.8 cm.)

Provenance

Acquired from Guy Nevill, 7 February 1988.

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Lot Essay

Samuel John Carter was born in Swaffham, Norfolk and studied in Norwich. He specialised in painting animals and sporting subjects and exhibited extensively. He was praised by John Ruskin for The First Taste (Royal Academy 1875). Examples of his work are in the Tate and in Preston.

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