Archibald Thorburn: A Frosty Dawn

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Archibald Thorburn: A Pair of Peasants

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Carl Rungius: Prairie Wolf

“While Rungius’ brushwork did get more impressionistic in his maturity, he never sacrificed accuracy in depicting animal anatomy and musculature. In the present work, this loose brushwork is evident in the tall grass and brooding atmosphere behind the canine. Native to Wyoming the prairie wolf, or more accurately the coyote, is smaller relative of the…

Edwin Landseer: The Monarch of the Glen

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Jehovah Shalom Acapella

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Anthony van Dyck: An Andalusian Horse

“While he was still in his teens, Anthony van Dyck swiftly worked his way up the ranks in Peter Paul Rubens’s studio in Antwerp. Rubens would go on to describe him as ‘the best of my pupils’… aware of the younger man’s love of horses, Rubens gifted one of the finest steeds from his stable…

Nati Dreddd: Autumn

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Alfred Munnings: A Huntsman Riding Through a Thicket

“Living at Church Farm in Swainsthorpe from around 1903 until 1911, Munnings often rode with the Norwich Staghounds: ‘Hunting became a part of my life, and I saw many things on those days: bright winter sunlight on clipped horses and scarlet coats; on bare trees; stacks; on farmhouse gables; the riding out after a slight…

Justin Johnson: One Horse Town

“The Skagen painters were a group of Danish and Scandinavian painters who gathered each summer in the small fishing village of Skagen, on Denmark’s northernmost tip, from the early 1870s to the turn of the 20th century…Influenced by French Impressionism and the Realist tendencies of the Barbizon school, the Skagen painters were drawn to the…

Paul Gauguin: The White Horse

“Gauguin painted this famous picture during his second stay in Tahiti. He liked to roam through the countryside and explore the mountains and forests of the interior. These out-of-the-way places swarmed with all sorts of wildlife and plants which enchanted him.But this scene is not taken from real life; it is an imaginary, synthetic vision…

André Brasilier: Cavaliers devant les vagues

“André Brasilier is one of the few surviving École de Paris artists. He stands out in the Parisian modern art scene for his unique style that fuses Fauvist, Impressionist, Expressionist, and Symbolist elements. In a career spanning more than seven decades, horses have consistently been one of his key subjects. In Cavaliers devant les vagues…

A Little Mozart, A Little Munnings

“Munnings frequently experimented with this theme of a huntsman manoeuvering through thick brush approaching a bank or ditch and this is typical of his style at this date. His own hunting experiences often inspired his vision and it is probable that this horse is ‘the brown mare’ whom Munnings describes in his memoirs as ‘a…

Sir Alfred James Munnings: Crostwick Common, Woman With a Donkey and Geese

Crostwick Common: Woman with a Donkey and Geese was executed in 1904, when Munnings stayed at an inn called the Crostwick White Horse, near Norwich, and painted at Crostwick Common. In his memoir An Artist’s Life, published nearly fifty years after the picture was completed, Munnings recalled those charmed days: ‘Then came the open Common….

Rudolf Koller: Outing on the Forest’s Edge

Who Is Rudolf Koller? Rudolf Koller (Swiss, 1828-1905) is considered one of Switzerland’s finest animal painters associated with a realist and classicist style, and also with  Düsseldorf school of painting.[2] Koller’s style is similar to that of the realist painters Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Click for Enlarged Image Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside  …