Hunting Oil Painting Grey Horse Lead Huntsman Scent Hounds by Hesketh Raoul Lejarderay Millais

Fine Sporting British oil painting on panel hunting portrait of The Grey Horse Lead Huntsman about to Charge with Scent Hounds by Hesketh Raoul Lejarderay Millais. Impress your clients & guests with this sporting hunting masterpiece to display on your office or home wall space. Subject hunting scene portrait featuring A red coat leading huntsman facing right in side profile wearing a traditional black riding hat, in white trousers & black riding boots, he is beginning to charge on his grey horse also leading his dog pack of scent hounds following in full stride. Set in open countryside with low green grass & gentle sloping hills in the background. Title “The Grey Horse Lead Huntsman Blowing Horn Charge With Scent Hounds” C1980 By Hesketh Raoul Lejarderay Millais. You will love the different vibrant colour hues red, white, green golden brown, black grey and sky blue. In our opinion this is a fine example of his work. Set in a recent decorative Larson Juhl gilt moulded frame, with hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home display. This painting is signed in the bottom corner by the known British sporting portrait artist Biography Hesketh Raoul Lejarderay Millais. Artist Biography Hesketh Raoul Lejarderay Millais (4 October 1901 – 24 November 1999), usually known as Raoul or 'Liony' Millais was a portrait painter, equestrian artist and sportsman. Millais was the grandson of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir John Everett Millais and the son of naturalist John Guille Millais, from whom he inherited both his artistic talent and his love of animals and of hunting. Millais is best known for his equestrian paintings and for his Spanish work, created when he accompanied Ernest Hemingway. Like his contemporary, Alfred Munnings, Millais was an opponent of Modernism in art, which he called "the Picasso lark". Millais works have been exhibited & sold at auctions like Christie's and Bonhams in London. The highest recorded sold price was for $27,400 Us dollars. His oeuvre has been posthumously profiled in publications such as Artnet, The Independent, The Field, and Art UK. He married Elinor Clare Macdonell, daughter of railroad magnate Allan Ronald Macdonell and Margaret Helen Ryan (heir and niece of Hugh Ryan), of Montreal, Canada. Millais and Elinor and had two sons, John Millais (b. 1927) and Hugh Geoffroy Millais (b.1929) who became a celebrated actor. After Elinor's death in 1953, Millais married his second wife Kay Prior Palmer with whom he had a third son, Hesketh Merlin. He died in 1999 in his 99th year in Oxfordshire, England. Provenance: Arthur Greatorex Ltd, London, High End southern sporting auction, exhibited at Famous Lord Hill Museum & in collection of Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd We only select & sell paintings based upon subject, quality & significance. We provide friendly professional exceptional customer service. Viewings are welcome by appointment only for customer support please send a message thank you. Browse our exciting other available collections in our shop gallery happy shopping.