Weather-bound
Weather-bound c1898 by British Painter Arthur Juan Elsley (1860 – 1952); un pintor de finales de los períodos victoriano y eduardiano conocido por sus idílicas escenas de género de niños juguetones y sus mascotas.
Una maravillosa imagen nostálgica de los niños y su perro jugando en la nieve del invierno.
Weather-bound is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image.
Información a continuación derivada de Wikipedia.org
Juan Elsley, also known as Arthur John Elsley was an British painter of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, who gained fame for his creation of idyllic genre scenes of playful children and their pets.
Elsley was born in London, and was one of six children born to John Elsley, a coachman and amateur artist, and Emily Freer. Elsley’s father had exhibited at the British Institution Exhibition in 1845 but later in life contracted tuberculosis which forced him into early retirement.
When Arthur was only eleven years old, he was producing proficient animal studies made during his frequent visits to the London Zoo in Regent’s Park.
At the age of fourteen, he enrolled in the South Kensington School of Art (laterto become the Royal College of Art); and at about this time his eyesight became permanently damaged when he contracted measles.
Elsley took up the post of probationer at the Royal Academy Schools in 1876; y es aquí donde fue influenciado por Frederick Pickersgill (1820 – 1900 Guardián de la Royal Academy), Edward Armitage (1817 – 1896 Profesor de pintura), John Marshall (1818 – 1891 Profesor de anatomía), y Henry Bowler (1824 – 1903 Profesor de perspectiva).
Elsley permaneció en las Escuelas de la Academia hasta 1882, y luego comenzó a aceptar encargos para hacer retratos de niños y perros, con énfasis en caballos; con muchos de sus encargos de retratos provenientes de la familia de políticos Benett-Stanford que viven en Preston Manor en Brighton
A large number of Elsley paintings were inspired by sketches he made on frequent cycling trips around the countryside. En 1878 he exhibited his first picture, entitled “A Portrait of an Old Pony” en la Real Academia.
His first known published work was a line engraving entitled “April Floods In Eastern Counties” printed in “Young England” magazine in 1885.