John Frederick Lewis

Buck-Shooting in Windsor Great Park

1825

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Artist: John Frederick Lewis 1805–1876
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Support: 991 x 1372 mm
frame: 1305 x 1713 x 149 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by the Art Fund 1936
Reference: N04822

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Visitors to London exhibitions from Continental Europe were often struck by the vigour of British sporting and animal painting. Lewis, though best known for exotic scenes of Spain and the Near East, began his career as an animal painter.He was a protégé of Thomas Lawrence, the president of the Royal Academy and a royal favourite. Lawrence obtained permission for him to work in the park and menagerie at Windsor. This is one of several pictures he painted between 1824 and 1826, showing the royal deer-keepers and staghounds.

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