Animal Paintings at Royal Holloway

16min 12 stops
English

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 col...

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Tracks

Introduction: Sympathetic Dogs and Lion-Skin Rugs

01:31 | Picture Gallery

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Landscape with Cows and Sheep by Thomas Sidney Cooper

01:17 | Picture Gallery

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Evening, Driving Cattle by Constant Troyon

01:10 | Picture Gallery

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The Carrier Preparing to Set Out by George Morland

01:19 | Picture Gallery

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Trentside by Thomas Creswick

01:22 | Picture Gallery

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

00:59 | Picture Gallery

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

01:05 | Picture Gallery

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Man Proposes, God Disposes by Edwin Landseer

01:37 | Picture Gallery

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Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward by Luke Fildes

01:51 | Picture Gallery

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Sympathy by Briton Riviere

01:38 | Picture Gallery

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An Anxious Moment by Briton Riviere

00:57 | Picture Gallery

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The Babylonian Marriage Market by Edwin Long

01:25 | Picture Gallery

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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.

Venue

Royal Holloway Picture Gallery

Egham

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