The Totteridge XI
| The Totteridge XI | |
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| Artist | Arthur Wardle |
| Year | 1897 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Location | The Kennel Club Art Gallery, London |
| Owner | The Kennel Club |
The Totteridge XI is an 1897 oil on canvas work by English painter
Background
The Totteridge XI was painted by experienced animal painter Arthur Wardle, and was commissioned by Fox Terrier breeder Francis Redmond.[1] Redmond took a high level of interest in the painting, with Wardle remarking many years later, "Mr Redmond stood over me and made me 'perfect' all his dogs – shorten their backs, lengthen their necks and muzzles, make their ears and feet smaller than they really were – and so on. None of them were half as good as in their picture".[2] Such were the corrections insisted upon by Redmond, that an outline of a completed painted over dog can be seen to the right of the painting,[2] and where corrections were made to individual dogs, the original lines are still hazily visible.[3]
Although Redmond was
Aesthetics
The painting depicts eleven
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-89090-143-4.
- ^ a b "The Totteridge XI". The Kennel Club. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
- ^ Dennison, Matthew (2 December 2009). "Inside the Kennel Club art gallery". The Times. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-900890-14-7.
- ^ "'Fox Terrier in Art' at the Kennel Club". Our Dogs. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
- ^ Ash, Edward Cecil (1927). Dogs: their history and development. Vol. 2. New York: Houghton Mifflin. p. 416.