James Coutts Michie ARSA, Portrait Of A Terrier

James Coutts Michie ARSA, Portrait Of A TerrierThis late 19th century oil painting by Scottish artist James Coutts Michie (1859 1919) depicts an obedient terrier wearing a chain with a blue bow. With his lop sided ears, squashed face, and tiny back legs, this pooch is a truly charming creature. Seated within, what appears to be, a curtained off area of the home, a young Michie has gone to great lengths to present the right impression. Its probably one of his earliest known works. The love one has

you’d be carrying around a jug of ale

The portrait is signed illegibly in the upper right and housed within a later frame

Size 19½” x 17” / 50cm x 43cm

The composition asks questions

many sought challenging environments that created an intense contrast of light and shade

Housed within a 19th-century gilt frame with beautiful foliate decoration

This exquisite early 20th-century etching by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst RA (1890-1978) depicts a woman of mixed European and African parentage

The nature of doing so requires speed and skill

the final embers of a setting sun fall across a dystopian vision

where three plants stand

An older couple are sitting on a wooden bench within a beautiful park or garden

a bouquet of daffodils takes centre stage - with their shadow cast along an orange tablecloth