Painting of Two Horses with Dog in Landscape, British, 1863, Bretland french caned chairs Bottom of apron to floor

Bottom of apron to floor (clearance): approx

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He worked mainly in oils and his subject matter covered animal portraits generally as well as hunting scenes and landscapes

over an elegantly proportioned pale green carved polychrome stand-alone base

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Painting of Two Horses with Dog in Landscape, British, 1863, Bretland french caned chairs Bottom of apron to floorThomas Walker Bretland (British, 1802 1874) Chestnut and White Horses with Dog in a Landscape signed 'T. Bretland 1863" (lower right) oil on canvas. The canvas: 25 5 16 x 33 9 16 in. Bretland was born in Nottingham, the eldest son of Peter Bretland, the owner of a coach and carriage painting business. Bretland sketched from an early age and wanted to train as an artist, but his father discouraged this and in 1816 Thomas became apprenticed to him in