Ferneley John (3 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. John Ferneley (illustrator). First edition. A signed first edition of this biographical study of British artist John Ferneley, illustrated with his own work. The first edition of this work, signed by the author, Major Guy Paget, to the front pastedown. Paget was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician, who alongside this work published a number of biographies of Medieval Women.This work is a biographical study of the English painter John Ferneley, regarded as one of Britain's great equine artists, and known for his paintings of horses and hunting scenes.Illustrated with numerous plates, including seven full colour reproductions of Ferneley's paintings. Collated, complete.The discovery of Ferneley's account book prompted the production of this work, and several of his entries are reproduced, including information on his earnings from a large number of paintings and sketches.With the bookplate of Christian Simonds to the front pastedown. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With discolouration to back strip. Small splits to cloth to centre of rear joint and head of front joint, not affecting binding. Bumping to spine head and tail. Contemporary illustrated bookplate and author's signature to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. signed by author. book.

Condition: Good. Hand-colored aquatint on wove paper. A contemporary reprint of the original. 48.5 x 65 cm (sheet). Very Good.

Lithograph, coloured by hand, drawn on stone by Lowes Dickinson, printed by Charles Hullmandel. A characterful portrait of the huntsman, John Booth, his horse and a number of his hounds. John Ferneley, with the encouragement of the Duke of Rutland studied under Benjamin Marshall for three years before travelling and painting in England and Ireland. He settled in Melton Mowbray in 1814. He "painted the Leicester hunting fraternity and their activities for nearly fifty years with great success and popularity. He also painted thoroughbreds, many of which were engraved by Edward Duncan. and published in Ackermann's short-lived series of racehorse portraits. In the hierarchy of horse painters Ferneley's work. [is] more consistently excellent than portraits by J.F. Herring Snr." (Lane) Siltzer p.121.