John Sargent Noble, R.B.A. (1848-1896)

Watching the stalkers

Details

John Sargent Noble, R.B.A. (1848-1896)
Watching the stalkers
signed and dated 'J.S. Noble/1883' (lower right) and further signed, inscribed and numbered 'No 1./"Watching the Stalkers"/by J.S. Noble. 17^a Radnor Place Gloucester Sq^r^e/Hyde Park.' (on a label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas, in the artist's original framed
60 x 84½ in. (152.4 x 214.6 cm.)

Provenance

with Arthur Tooth and Sons, London.

Literature

Art Journal, 1883, p.218.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1883, no. 272.

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Lot Essay

Watching the Stalkers is one of John Sargent Noble's most monumental pictures. When exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1883 the Art Journal called it a 'very promising bit of animal painting, introduced into a landscape which smells of fresh air'. It ranks alongside The Keepers Pony (Cheltenham Art Gallery) and On The Moors (Sunderland Museum). Noble studied at the Royal Academy and was a pupil of Sir Edwin Landseer whose influence can be seen in these works of such grandeur of conception.

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