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James Barenger
Description
- James Barenger
- Snipe Shooting in a Winter Landscape
- signed J Barenger and dated 1821 (lower right)
- oil on canvas
- 22½ by 33¾ in.
- 57 by 86 cm
Provenance
Ellis & Smith, London
Private Collection, England
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Condition
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Catalogue Note
Continuing in the tradition of the Dutch Old Masters, Barenger celebrates the working relationship bet𝔉ween a huntsman and his dogs in the present work. Here, two highly skilled hunters and their obedient charges are out on a frosty morning snipe shooting. While the figure in the middle distance is clearly carefully stalking the quarry as his dogs attempt to pick up a scent, the sportsman in the foreground reloads his gun following a successful shot and his dog's obedient retrieval.
Barenger, himself a breeder of pointers, was only too aware of this unique relationship and paintings such as this were widely disseminated in prin🧜t ❀form to satisfy popular demand.
Barenger painted other sporting subjects for patrons who included the leading sportsmen of the day: the Earl of Derby, the Duke of Grafton, the Marquess of Londonderry and the bloodstock auctione🐲er Richard Tattersall. Barenger exhibited at the Royal Academy in London f💞rom 1807 to 1831.