Arthur Wardle (British, 1864-1949), Portrait of a Golden Retriever

Oil on canvas (lined), signed lower left, presented in later carved and gilt wood frame.

SS 17 x 12 in.; DOA 20 1/4 x 15 3/8 in.

Estate of Isabel Murray Bernfeld, Hamilton, NC

Wardle led the late nineteenth-century canine portraiture trend with his ability to render dogs naturalistically and capture their emotions. He also painted a number of large well-known mythological scenes, including A Bacchante (1909), which are recognized alongside other major Victorian Classical Revival works by artists such as Lord Frederic Leighton and Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

Obscuring varnish under UV light; cut and laid to new canvas; abrading to surface edges of canvas from frame.