Painting of Two Horses with Dog in Landscape, British, 1863, Bretland french caned chairs Oil on canvas

Oil on canvas

over an elegantly proportioned pale green carved polychrome stand-alone base

He worked mainly in oils and his subject matter covered animal portraits generally as well as hunting scenes and landscapes

$3900 individually

Continental carved and polychrome decorated cherub candle holders

Painting of Two Horses with Dog in Landscape, British, 1863, Bretland french caned chairs Oil on canvasThomas Walker Bretland (British, 1802 1874) Chestnut and White Horses with Dog in a Landscape signed 'T. Bretland 1863" (lower right) oil on canvas. The canvas: 25 5 16 x 33 9 16 in. Bretland was born in Nottingham, the eldest son of Peter Bretland, the owner of a coach and carriage painting business. Bretland sketched from an early age and wanted to train as an artist, but his father discouraged this and in 1816 Thomas became apprenticed to him in