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Independent British Fine Art & Antiques Dealers | Historic Paintings, Portraiture, Sporting Art & Decorative Arts
Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD® is an independent, family-run British fine art and antiques dealership and online gallery, incorporated in England and Wales on 22 April 2024 under company registration number 15666518.
Led by directors Michael and Victoria, the company specialises in carefully selected British and European paintings, sculpture and decorative arts, serving private collectors, galleries, interior designers, art consultants and institutional buyers throughout the United Kingdom and internationally.
With our registered office in Covent Garden, London, and trading operations based in Cheshire, we combine historical research, considered attribution, detailed condition reporting and professional customer service.
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We operate exclusively online and do not maintain a public showroom.
Private one-to-one virtual viewings are available by appointment, allowing prospective purchasers to examine artworks remotely and discuss condition, dimensions, attribution, provenance and historical context.
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Fine Art & Works of Art | 17th–21st Century
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- British and European oil paintings, watercolours and mixed-media works
- Historic portraiture and figurative paintings
- Marine, naval and maritime subjects
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By extending the useful life of existing pieces, the antiques trade can help reduce demand for newly manufactured decorative goods while preserving traditional craftsmanship and cultural heritage.
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Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD®
Registered Office:
71–75 Shelton Street
Covent Garden
London
WC2H 9JQ
United Kingdom
Trading Operations:
Mickle Trafford
Chester
Cheshire
United Kingdom
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Company Registration Number: 15666518
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Set 3 Hunting Sequence Paintings Huntsman on Grey by Charles Johnson Payne Snaffles
REF: LA513555
£15,000
€17,982
$20,077
LoveAntiques Dealersince Mar 2017Approved item557 sales by dealerFree Delivery
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Description
Set 3 Antique Historic English Hunting Paintings By Charles Johnson Payne Snaffles.
Impress your guests & clients in your home or office with this humorous hunting set masterpiece.
Subject hunting sequences depicting the same red coat rider with grey horse, a humorous scene first as he is about to jump the fence then in the second the rider has fallen off onto the floor with the horse also on its backside on the floor and showing the fence has been broken by them. With the third scene showing the gentleman rider has got back onto his horse and is riding away happy as he won his bet.
Title Set 3 Historic Hunting Sequences Jumping Over A Fence by Charles Johnson Payne Snaffles each painting has its own title inscribed “A undered to one ar cooms down, Ar am down, But damme ar won me bet”.
1 of the paintings is signed Snaffles by the artist Charles Johnson Payne Snaffles the other 2 are not signed but they are all by the same artist as he did not sign all of his sequence works.
In our opinion these are a fine very rare available example of his works.
Presented in the original traditional tiger oak masculine frames with protective glass covers.
A rather small display size with each frame being 27cm wide and 30.5cm high each.
Medium watercolour on paper.
Artist biography Charles "Snaffles" Johnson Payne (1884–1967) was an English painter known for his humorous work and for his outstanding draughtsmanship and depiction of the horse in action. His works have been exhibited and sold in auction houses around the world with the current highest sold price being $27,600 Us Dollars. Snaffles specialised in water colours His subject matter was invariably military, racing or hunting / equestrian scenes (polo, pig sticking), or some combination of these. Many of his most famous pictures are pursuits of racing and hunting. Snaffles had a distinctive drawing style, often showing just one person in detail. In addition, his pictures are often recognisable from the use of the incorporation of one or a number of sketches around the principal image (what is sometimes referred to as a remarque), and some additional caption, often amusing, to supplement the picture's title and further explain the scene. In contrast to many hunting artists (Lionel Edwards, Alfred Munnings etc.), a high proportion of Snaffles's work showed individual hunting characters, sometimes inactive, as opposed to a large field sweeping over vale country. Snaffles was deemed too young to go to the South African War but in 1902, at the age of 18, he enlisted as a gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery where, after lights-out, he used to read Kipling to his mates by candlelight in the barrack room. In the following years he developed his brilliant artistic skills and was able to leave the Army. By the time the First World War broke out, he was a frequent contributor to periodicals, such as the Sporting and Dramatic, in the days before photography had become general. In the early part of the war, as an artist for The Graphic, he sketched many scenes from the front in France before entering the Royal Naval Air Service as a rating Motor Mechanic in small coastal motorboats. Later he was commissioned as a Lieutenant Rnvr, and joined the team under Norman Wilkinson engaged in designing camouflage for ships at sea, which involved trips in the Northern Patrol.
In 1915 he married Lucy Lewin, who was born in Sydney, Nsw, the daughter of a West Country owner-skipper of a trading brig whose wife, as was often the custom in those days, accompanied him; the ship happened to be in Sydney at the time. His artistic career continued between the wars, covering the sporting scene in England, Ireland and, particularly, in India. Apart from the sale of his sporting prints, he contributed to many magazines including Punch. He and Lucy lived just outside Guildford from 1925 until early in World War II. He helped with the camouflage of airfields, gasometers etc. and joined the Home Guard. When their house was narrowly missed by a stick of bombs, they moved first to Somerset, then to Devon and eventually to Orcheston in Wiltshire, before buying Orchard Cottage, Hindon Lane, Tisbury, Wiltshire just after the war. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Snaffles had a studio behind the house and although his most prolific painting days had passed, he still continued to sketch and turned his hand to producing a series of well-received books and also Christmas cards for his friends. He and Lucy were often to be seen on the footpaths around Fonthill with their dogs. Snaffles died in 1967, Lucy in 1980. They are both buried in Fonthill Gifford churchyard.
Provenance Private hunting collection from Vendor, high end sporting art sale from southern auction house & Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd labels verso.
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measurements
Height:
30.5 cm
Width:
27 cm
Depth:
2 cm
declaration
Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD has clarified that the Set 3 Hunting Sequence Paintings Huntsman on Grey by Charles Johnson Payne Snaffles (LA513555) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c.1920
condition
Offered in fine used condition, the painting surface is in acceptable order, with various foxing staining, the glass covers on each have staining also in areas. The frames have general wear, scuffs, foxing, water stains to the back also rust to to the metal hanging loops with some small losses commensurate with usage & old age.
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c.1920
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This Set 3 Hunting Sequence Paintings Huntsman on Grey by Charles Johnson Payne Snaffles is located in Greater London, United Kingdom
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