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SOLD HOPKINS HOBDAY HORSLEY (1807 – 1890)
A beautiful large signed oil on canvas by the Birmingham painter Hopkins Hobday Horsely. This work is signed, dated and titled 1861 verso. It depicts a view from Colton near Rugeley in Staffordshire and shows and extensive landscape with a hunter and his dogs with cattle and sheep. A beautiful example.
Title: “A view from Colton near Rugeley – Staffordshire”
Signature:Signed , titled and dated 1861 verso
Provenance: Private UK collection
Medium: Oil on original canvas
Size: c. 20 x 30 inches unframed / 26 x 36 inches framed
Condition: Unlined original canvas – One small patch verso.
Born 1807; died 1890.
Painter. Landscapes with figures, waterscapes, landscapes, architectural views.
Hopkins Horsley exhibited in London at the British Institution and the Suffolk Street Gallery from 1832 to 1866 and at the Royal Academy until 1857.
Auction Records
London, 8 March 1977: Winter (oil on canvas, 26 × 35½ ins/66 × 90 cm) GBP 1,800
London, 3 July 1979: Signpost (oil on canvas, 16½ × 30¼ ins/42 × 77 cm) GBP 700
Sevenoaks, 26 April 1999: Study of Snowdrifts, Carlton near Rugeley Jan 7th 1881 (1881, oil on canvas, 23 × 35 ins/59 × 90 cm) GBP 1,250
Bath, 30 Jan 2001: Beach Scenes with Numerous Figures (1877, oil on canvas, a pair, 8 × 12 ins/20 × 30 cm) GBP 3,000
Billingshurst, 23 May 2001: Busy Beach Scene with Archers. Figures in a Rocky Cove (1877, oil on canvas, a pair, 7 × 11 ins/19 × 29 cm) GBP 4,000
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