Animal Paintings at Royal Holloway

English 16 mins 12

Royal Holloway's Picture Gallery is packed with examples of Victorian animal paintings - including works by some of the most prolific artists of the subject. This tour offers an introduction to animal painters, and to animals in paintings, in the collection. Learn about some of our most important an...

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  1. Introduction: Sympathetic Dogs and Lion-Skin Rugs

    1:30 | Picture Gallery

  2. Landscape with Cows and Sheep by Thomas Sidney Cooper

    1:16 | Picture Gallery

  3. Evening, Driving Cattle by Constant Troyon

    1:10 | Picture Gallery

  4. The Carrier Preparing to Set Out by George Morland

    1:18 | Picture Gallery

  5. Trentside by Thomas Creswick

    1:21 | Picture Gallery

  6. The Drover's Halt, Island of Mull in the Distance

    1:00 | Picture Gallery

  7. A Young Gillie with Setters and Dead Game by James Hardy the Younger

    1:04 | Picture Gallery

  8. Man Proposes, God Disposes by Edwin Landseer

    1:36 | Picture Gallery

  9. Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward by Luke Fildes

    1:50 | Picture Gallery

  10. Sympathy by Briton Riviere

    1:37 | Picture Gallery

  11. An Anxious Moment by Briton Riviere

    0:56 | Picture Gallery

  12. The Babylonian Marriage Market by Edwin Long

    1:24 | Picture Gallery

Featured artworks

Landscape with Cows and Sheep

Evening, Driving Cattle

The Carrier Preparing to Set Out

Trentside

Credits

Researched and written by Dr Alison Wright, Art Collections Cataloguer.