23rd Mar, 2019 10:00 GMT/BST

Spring Fine Art Sale (Part I)

 
Lot 246
 

246

John Anster Fitzgerald (1832-1906) The Fairies Around The Chained Dog Signed, watercolour, 26cm by

John Anster Fitzgerald (1832-1906)
The Fairies Around The Chained Dog
Signed, watercolour, 26cm by 36cm

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John Anster "Fairy" Fitzgerald is perhaps one of the best regarded artist in this genre of picture. Unlike many Victorian fairy painters, Fitzgerald dedicated almost his entire career to the genre, unlike many of his contemporaries such as Joseph Noel Paton. While many of these fairy painters took much of their inspiration from literary subjects such as A Midsummer Nights Dream or The Tempest Fitzgerald formulated many of his ideas from his own personal imagination, dreams and nightmares. As a result his pictures are more compellingly real and convincing than many other fairy painters of the time.
Not Sold

 

.In generally good condition overall. There is a slight fade to sheet and possible minor discolouration otherwise apparently sound condition. Unexamined out of frame.

 


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Auction: Spring Fine Art Sale (Part I), 23rd Mar, 2019

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