A man and Dog asleep
A man and Dog asleep
A Man and his Dog asleepSigned with monogram lower right, inscribed with shorthand upper right and further inscribed lower centre: head ....., pencil19 by 27cm., 7 ½ by 10 ½ in.Stylistically this drawing dates from between 1811, when Ward was made a full Royal Academician, and 1825. Ward's annotated notebooks, which date from 1810 to 1825 and are now in the Royal Academy Library, contain similarly confident drawings. The dog in this drawing may be based on Ward's painting of Vic, Napoleon's mastiff (circa 1820) which was captured during the Peninsular War. Ward was the best known animal painter in the early years of the nineteenth century Provenance:With P. & D. Colnaghi, London; Bought by Sir David Scott (1887-1986), July 1970;By family descent until 2008){kind=link}
James Ward, R.A. (1769-1859)
A Man and his Dog asleep
Signed with monogram lower right, inscribed with shorthand upper right and further inscribed lower centre: head ....., pencil
19 by 27cm., 7 ½ by 10 ½ in.
Stylistically this drawing dates from between 1811, when Ward was made a full Royal Academician, and 1825. Ward's annotated notebooks, which date from 1810 to 1825 and are now in the Royal Academy Library, contain similarly confident drawings. The dog in this drawing may be based on Ward's painting of Vic, Napoleon's mastiff (circa 1820) which was captured during the Peninsular War. Ward was the best known animal painter in the early years of the nineteenth century
Provenance:
With P. & D. Colnaghi, London;
Bought by Sir David Scott (1887-1986), July 1970;
By family descent until 2008