Animal Paintings at Royal Holloway

English 16min 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

    01:31 | Picture Gallery

  2. Landscape with Cows and Sheep by Thomas Sidney Cooper

    01:17 | Picture Gallery

  3. Evening, Driving Cattle by Constant Troyon

    01:10 | Picture Gallery

  4. The Carrier Preparing to Set Out by George Morland

    01:19 | Picture Gallery

  5. Trentside by Thomas Creswick

    01:22 | Picture Gallery

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

    00:59 | Picture Gallery

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

    01:05 | Picture Gallery

  8. Man Proposes, God Disposes by Edwin Landseer

    01:37 | Picture Gallery

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

    01:51 | Picture Gallery

  10. Sympathy by Briton Riviere

    01:38 | Picture Gallery

  11. An Anxious Moment by Briton Riviere

    00:57 | Picture Gallery

  12. The Babylonian Marriage Market by Edwin Long

    01:25 | 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.