Antique Painting, Black Dogs Portrait Painting, Setter Gordon, Oil On Canvas, Portrait Of Dog, 19th Century. (QA660)
OLD MASTER PAINTINGS, DOG PORTRAITS, SETTER GORDON, OIL ON CANVAS, 19TH CENTURY. (QA660)
The category Antique Paintings Portraits of Dogs features an oil painting on canvas with a portrait
of a black dog, a Setter Gordon. It is a pleasant portrait of a hunting dog from the late 19th century.
The antique painting is signed top left Edm Van der Meulen, a Belgian painter
of portraits with animals, still life. Impressionist painter.
Edmond Van der Meulen (1841-1905) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels.
He loved painting animals and specialised in portraying dogs.
Many paintings by this painter are kept in various museums in Belgium: Ghent, Bruges, Tournai,
Leuven, Brussels. The work has a gilded frame and is coeval with the XIX century painting.
The Old oil Painting and the frame have been carefully and professionally restored.
The category Ancient Paintings Portrait of a Dog, Black-haired Setter Gordon, Oil painting on canvas,
19th century belong to the Bisgart Collection.
Bibliography: E. Bénézit. Dictionnaire Des Peintres Sculptures Dessinateurs et Graveurs.
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Canvas size: 46 x 38 cm
Size with frame: 63 x 56 cm
Depth: 7.5 cm
Weight: 6.5 kg
Antique Paintings | Blacj Portraits of Dogs | Portrait of a Dog | Belgian Antiquity