Lot 7: Charles Henry Schwanfelder (1774-1837)

A grey hunter in a wooded landscape
signed and inscribed 'C.H. Schwanfelder Animal Painter to His Majesty' (lower left)
oil on canvas
26 x 34 in. (66 x 86.3 cm.)

C.W. Gott; Christie's, London, 3 April 1958, lot 117 (20 gns. to Ackermann).
with Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd., London.
Mrs Barbara Harcourt Wood, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 23 November 1966, lot 124 (£140 to Ackermann).
with Arthur Ackermann & Son, Ltd., London.
O.H. Gilbey.

Schwanfelder was born in Leeds, the son of a German house decorator and painter of clocks and snuff boxes. Although he remained based in Yorkshire for most of his life, he painted elsewhere and exhibited at the Royal Academy 1809-1818. In 1816 he was appointed Animal Painter to the Prince Regent, being reappointed in 1821 as Animal Painter to King George IV.

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