Lot Details
Lot 5
George Armfield British, circa 1808-1893 Sir Walter Scott's Dogs, 1854
British, circa 1808-1893
Sir Walter Scott's Dogs, 1854
Signed G. Armfield and dated 1854 (ll)
Oil on canvas
28 1/8 x 36 inches (71.5 x 91.5 cm)
Provenance:
Loomis Collection, acquired circa 1872 in Dublin
Burdett Loomis, Jr., Hartford, Connecticut, by descent from his mother; thence by descent in the family
Private collection, Essex, Connecticut
Exhibited:
New London, Connecticut, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, no. 380
It is purported that George Armfield painted this in Abbottsford, home of Sir Walter Scott, and that Scott's favorite dog, Maida, is pictured at center. Maida was a stag-hound of the old Highland breed. Scott wrote of Maida in a letter to Sir Adam Ferguson and described him as "one of the hansomest dogs that could be found; it was a present to me from the chief of Glengary, and was highly valued, both on account of his beauty, his fidelity, and the great rarity of the breed."
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