|
Date: |
|
Description: | Materfamilias means a woman who is the head of a household or the mother of a family. This mother of a large litter of puppies is painted with much tenderness. It is interesting that attitudes towards women began to change around the time this was painted (late 19th century). Women began to campaign for political votes, although no 'acts' were passed during Victoria's reign. Alfred William Strutt was born in 1856 in Tanaraki, New Zealand and at first studied under his father, William S. Strutt 1826-1915. He later moved to England and studied at the South Kensington School of Art. He is recorded as living in Molynden, Kent in 1880, before moving to London in 1883 and finally settling in Wadhurst, Sussex in 1891. Srutt specialised in painting animal, genre and portrait subjects like his father, but was also a competent etcher. He became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1888, having shown his works there from 1877, and in 1889 he became an associate member of the Royal Society of Painters and Etchers. He also was a member of the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists and a member of the Royal Cambrian Academy. He exhibited fifty-one works at the Royal Academy, showing his first work there in 1879, titled `I hope I don't intrude', number 778. It is interesting that he accompanied King Edward VII on a hunting trip to Scandinavia and finally he died in 1924 after painting many fine works.
Oil painting showing a female dog, lying on a pavement, surrounded by her litter of puppies. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Animals Fine arts Mothers Oil painting Oil Paintings Highlights Victorian period Domestic animals 19th Century Paintings Dogs Nineteenth century Parents Art collections | Temporal: | 1870 - 1883
Victorian (1837-1901) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | STRUTT; Alfred William (1856 - 1924) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
Yvonne
Regarded by many as the…
-
untitled
A streetscene featuring a group…
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
|