Significant English Naïve School Dog Portrait

Depicting a Large Shaggy Dog in a Stylised Landscape
Oils on Canvas
English, c.1830

43.25" high x 46.25" wide (framed)

Ref: 9379

Provenance: English Private Collection, The Library of the late Martin Woolf Orskey

A particularly strong and boldly naïve English Dog Portrait of great scale and character. The engaging dog, painted in oils on canvas, fills the canvas with its imposing presence, shaggy coat and white paws, whilst standing four-square in a stylised landscape, with its head tilted to "dexter" and mountains in the background. It comes from a fine collection of British Naïve British Dog Paintings and was professionally relined, conserved and retouched by Valentine Walsh in the 1980s. It has subsequently been conserved and re-varnished by the Paola Bernardi Studio in London. There are some areas of inpainting, particularly to the right-hand edge of the canvas and where there were small areas of paint loss, for exhibition purposes. But it retains fundamental integrity and is a magnificent and important work from the British Folk Art Tradition, with excellent provenance.