Tigers by a Pool

Tigers by a Pool

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CUTHBERT EDMUND SWAN

1870-1931 

English School

Tigers by a Pool

Oil on artist’s board, signed

 23 x 27.8 cms

9 x 107/8 inches

 Overall framed size 33 x 39 cms

                                13 x 153/8 ins



Although born in Ireland on 11th January, 1870, Swan was educated at Seaford College in Sussex, England. He was the son of the eminent painter and sculptor John Macallan Swan R.A. who spent considerable time at London Zoo studying and drawing animals there, particularly the big cats.

Before becoming an artist and teacher of animal drawings for L C C School of Arts and Crafts, Cuthbert Swan had been a sailor and a scene painter.

He specialised in animals working in oils, watercolours and pastels to produce his paintings and, despite working in India for a while, spent most of his life in Hampstead. He became a member of the Feline School.

He exhibited 66 times in England at the Royal Academy (from 1893) and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters plus others at the Paris Salon, with titles such as Duke - a study of a lion; Jaguars at Play and Puma and cubs. His brother Edwin was a portrait painter.



Bibliography

Dictionary of British Animal Painters - J.C. Wood

Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950 - Grant Waters

Dictionary of Victorian Painters - Christopher Wood

Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940 - Johnson and Greutzner

Dimensions:

Framed height 83.82 cm / 33 "
Framed width 99.06 cm / 39 "
Year

1870 - 1931

Medium

Oil on artist's board

Country

England

Signed

signed

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