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James Walsham Baldock (1822-1898), was an English painter of horses, most frequently hunters, shooting scenes, sporting dogs and Highland scenes.Mitchell, Sally ‚''The Dictionary of British Equestrian Artists'' (Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club 1985), p. 99.
James Walsham Baldock, "Mrs Samuel Garnett mounted on a bay hunter with her two sons, John and Samuel mounted on ponies, outside Arch Hall, County Meath"
(Sotheby’s). Pollock of Mountainstown, Pratt of
James Walsham Baldock at The AthenaeumA gentleman standing beside his hunter, in a wooded landscape
(oil on canvas - Christie's) Equine artists English male painters 19th-century English painters 1822 births 1898 deaths 19th-century English male artists {{England-painter-stub
James Walsham Baldock (1822-1898), was an English painter of horses, most frequently hunters, shooting scenes, sporting dogs and Highland scenes.Mitchell, Sally ‚''The Dictionary of British Equestrian Artists'' (Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club 1985), p. 99.
Life and work
Baldock was born James Walsham Markham in 1822 at Tadcaster after which he was orphaned and adopted by his maternal grandfather, a farmer, whose name Baldock he took. His maternal grandson Charles Edwin Baldock, as well adopted by his grandfather, was also a painter. James Walsham Baldock's English and Irish commissions included those for Garnett of Arch Hall ("Mrs Samuel Garnett mounted on a bay hunter with her two sons, John and Samuel mounted on ponies, outside Arch Hall,County Meath
County Meath (; gle, Contae na Mí or simply ) is a county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster. It is bordered by Dublin to the southeast, Louth to the northeast, Kildare to the south, Offaly to the ...
"),(Sotheby’s). Pollock of Mountainstown, Pratt of
Cabra Castle
Cabra Castle is the name given to two castles, one now ruined, the other now used as a luxury hotel. They are near the hamlet of Cabra, which is very near Kingscourt (Irish: ''Dún a' Rí'') in south-east County Cavan, Ireland.
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, the 6th Viscount Galway of Serlby or the 5th Duke of Portland. He worked in oil, watercolour, gouache and pastel. The best of his work dates from 1850 to 1860, and was mainly in oils, some of which is comparable to the other leading sporting artists of his time. From about 1870 he seems to have turned almost entirely to pastoral scenes, many depicting cattle and sheep.
He was one of the founder members and later President of the Sheffield Society of Artists.
References
Further reading
* Mitchell, Sally‚ ''The Dictionary of British Equestrian Artists'' (Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club 1985).External links
James Walsham Baldock at The Athenaeum
(oil on canvas - Christie's) Equine artists English male painters 19th-century English painters 1822 births 1898 deaths 19th-century English male artists {{England-painter-stub