Kozlov Centre Barrie Paintings / October 2005                                    

Group of Seven:

Franklin Carmichael 1890-1945

Canadian - Attributed .

The Roadshow has turned up countless new finds from Canada's most important artists, the Group of Seven.

All in all 37 finds in a decade

^ Frank Carmichael was born in Orillia, Ontario and was the youngest member of the original Group of Seven.

Although one of the original members, he is perhaps more closely associated with the artists who joined in later years such as Fitzgerald, Casson and Holgate. he was always on the fringe of the Group, probably due to the difference in age or because he worked full time as a commercial artist. never the less, one of Canadas' principal painters.

Sir William Fettes Douglas PRSA

Oil on canvas "The Secret Convert"

 F.M.Evans.

Newlyn School

Self taught, Douglas abandoned a career in

banking for the arts and became an authority on aspects of Italian arts, a curator at the National Gallery of Scotland, and President of the RSA. Perhaps most noted for his still lifes, he took meticulous care in depicting books, antiques and curios of which he had a fine and extensive collection. However, in later years he became more inspired by landscape and produced numerous watercolours, with the National Galleries of Scotland now holding a large collection.

The Newlyn School consisted of a group of British painters who settled in and around Newlyn in the west country, in the 1880's. Influenced and drawing extensively on the local colour, mainly provided by the fishermen: and their wives.

The leaders started the movement in favour of plein air in England, following the lead of the French.

FRANK MILTON ARMINGTON

Canadian. (Biography Click here)

Henry John Boddington was the second of the six sons of Edward Williams, all of whom were artists.

Born Henry John Williams, he married Clarissa Eliza Boddington In 1832 & cleverly adopted her maiden name -

This gave him a new and individual identity and set him aside from his brothers. By 1842, with an excellent and established reputation as a painter of landscapes, particularly woodland and village scenes, he became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. This promoted him as the only member of his family to achieve the honour.  he collaborated on occasion with the British sporting artist John Frederick Herring, Sr., who would contribute to his works by painting horses & animals into Boddington's pre prepared landscapes.

During his life, His works were exhibited at the Royal Academy and can be seen at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the National Museum of Wales, City Art Galleries of, Blackburn, Glasgow,Preston, York, Sheffield and the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston, Mass.

David Freeman

Thomas Sidney Cooper

[British1803-1902]

 Thomas Sidney Cooper, one of the most fakes European artists of the decade was Born in Canterbury on 26 September 1803 he was a coach painter who became a scenic artist. entering the Royal Academy school in 1824.

From 1827 to 1830 he worked in Brussels, where he spent time in the studio of Eugène Verboekhoven whose animal subjects, together with those of Cuyp and Potter, had a profound effect upon him. Following the political disturbances which led to Belgian independence in 1830, Cooper returned early to London in 1831 and embarked on a very long and successful career as an animalier.

Cooper exhibited widely, at the British Institution 1833-59 and Royal Academy 1833-1902; elected, Associate Royal Academician in 1845 and Royal Academician in 1867. He died in Canterbury on 7th.of February in 1902.

Frederick Thomas Daws.

R.A. (British, b.1878)

Frederick Thomas Daws. R.A. (British, b.1878)

F T Daws, Ranks amongst the most notable of British canine portraitists.
Born in London on the 2nd of October 1878, He studied at the Lambeth school of Art and exhibited widely. least of all a total of 12 works at the Royal Academy from 1896.

Widely sought after, the artist painted many portraits of rare breeds and for some highly notable owners. His works are and always have been widely collected and are represented in the Permanent Collection of the Kennel Club alongside, Maud Earl, John Emms, Frances Fairman and Arthur Wardle.

Daws found his true vocation early in life, exhibiting his paintings, "Companions in Trouble," at the Royal Academy at only the age of eighteen.

In 1896 and in 1897 he had two others accepted.
Like Binks, Daws painted many of prize dogs of well known dog fanciers. Perhaps best known among them was Mrs. Campbell-Inglis, for whom he completed many portraits of her famous poodles over a period of some twenty years.

F. T. Daws also worked in bronze and many of his models were reproduced in porcelain. He was a master of canine anatomy and his bronzes, while little known, are important records of top-winning show dogs.
In 1930 he became the main artist at the Royal Doulton Works for their Champion Dog Models.
His paintings were also reproduced on a series of thirty-six postcards, produced for Spratts Dog Food Company and he is widely collected both in print form and sought after for his original works which are too numerous to list.

His most notable however being:
The Royal tiger Shoot in Nepal, Combat tigres

The outpost

An American Monarch and The Keddah Gate.

Not only was he a notable painter of dogs but also as a formidable sculptor. Exhibiting Bronzes and Oils at the Salon Des Artistes Francais in Paris.

He modeled for the Royal Doulton company, figurines of the Crufts Champion, Dry Toast. Dry Toast was the model used by Royal Doulton for the 'English Springer' introduced into their ‘Champions Dogs’ series in 1938.
He also sculpted:
An English Setter with pheasant.
Cocker Spaniel Lying in Basket,
Airdale Terrier Ch. 'Cotsford Topsail'
Dachshund Ch. 'Shrewd Saint" ,
Pekinese Ch. 'Biddee of Ifield',
Ch. Benign of Picardy, German Shepherd figure,
Collie Ch. 'Ashstead Applause',
Albourne Arthur, Champion Scottish Terrier
Cairn terrier, Charming Eyes
Welsh Corgi,
Cocker Spaniel, Ch. Lucky Star of Ware
'DALMATION CH GOWORTH VICTOR',
SPANIEL CHEWING HANDLE OF BASKET

Hutchinsons Book Of The Dog carries many illustrations by Daws.

Dawes lived in Beckenham in Kent until his death.

Terriers

George Smith ARMFIELD R.A.

British (c.1808-1893)

Or is it by his talented cousin Edward Armfield (British, 1817 to 1896) ?

Difficult to say as both artist painted in each others pockets, exactly the same subjects, in an almost indiscernible and equal style and both were regarded highly enough to be Royal academicians!!

Between 1840 and 1875, George Armfield exhibited a great number of canvases throughout Britain, most notably at the British Institution, at Suffolk Street and the Royal Academy. Due to the high quality of his works, many of his smaller pictures were passed off as or re-signed with the signature of the famous Edwin Landseer, the English 'master' of animal paintings.

The attention to detail in this piece though puts me very much in mind of George.

The oil painting is cut down from its original canvas and in so doing, the likely signature has gone forever.

This large unsigned oil painting of a pair of hunting terriers by a rabbit hole, was stuck in a porch and exposed to the elements for years. That's when the owner expressed an interest in it and it was given to her by her grandfather just before he passed away.

Pets & Sporting Dogs

During the 19th century in England there was a growing love for domestic animals with many artists receiving commissions to portray them. Though there were hundreds of artists who painted pictures of animal during this period, only a handful dedicated their lives to this pursuit and George Armfield was one of them.
Whether it was a group of gun dogs at rest before or after the hunt, a pet King Charles Spaniel in a landscape or terriers on the hunt his animals are portrayed as regal and charming - characteristics that very few artists could emulate. His ability to render his subjects realistically and three dimensionally created a great demand for his work and he was and still is, among England’s finest animal artists.

Artists:

Group of Seven:

Franklin Carmichael,

Frederick Thomas Daws

Thomas Sydney Cooper

Edward Armfield,

Henry John Boddington

Eugène

Cuyp

Verboekhoven

F M Evans Newlyn School

Frank Milton Armington

,Luigi Olivetti,

J.Knowles Hare Jr

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