Artist: Philip Reinagle Painting: Man with Falcon Introduction: Man with Falcon, oil on canvas (presumed), by the British artist Philip Reinagle. Undated. Image courtesy of 'A Polar Bear's Tale' blog..
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Artist: Philip Reinagle Painting: Harrier Killing a Bittern Introduction: "Harrier Killing a Bittern," oil on canvas, by the British painter Philip Reinagle, R.A. Dated 1797. 201 cm. x 145 cm. Courtesy of the National Archives, Government Art Collection.
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Birds of Prey, Goats and a Wolf, in a Landscape Painting ID:: 73081
Artist: Philip Reinagle Painting: Birds of Prey, Goats and a Wolf, in a Landscape Introduction: "Birds of Prey, Goats and a Wolf, in a Landscape," oil on canvas, by the British artist Philip Reinagle, R.A. Undated. 60 in. x 72 in. (152.4 cm. x 182.9 cm.) Courtesy of Christie's.
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1802-1835
British
Philip Reinagle Gallery
Philip Reinagle entered the schools of the Royal Academy in 1769, and afterwards became a pupil of Allan Ramsay (1713-1784), whom he assisted in the numerous portraits of George III and Queen Charlotte. He exhibited first at the Royal Academy in 1773, sending portraits almost exclusively until 1785, when the monotonous work of producing replicas of royal portraits appears to have given him a distaste for portraiture, and to have led him to abandon it for animal painting. He became very successful in his treatment of sporting dogs, especially spaniels, of birds, and of dead game. In 1787, however, he sent to the academy a 'View taken from Brackendale Hill, Norfolk,' and from that time his exhibited works were chiefly landscapes. He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1787, but did not become an academician until 1812, when he presented as his diploma picture 'An Eagle and a Vulture disputing with a Hyaena'. He likewise exhibited frequently at the British Institution.
Reinagle was also an accomplished copyist of the Dutch masters, and his reproductions of the cattle-pieces and landscapes of Paul Potter, Ruysdael, Hobbema, Berchem, Wouwerman, Adnaan van de Velde, Karel Dujardin, and others have often been passed off as originals. He also made some of the drawings for Robert John Thornton's New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus, 1799-1807, and for his Philosophy of Botany, 1809-10 ; but his best drawings for book illustration were those of dogs for William Taplin's Sportsman's Cabinet, 1803, which were admirably engraved by John Scott.[1]
Reinagle died at 5 York Place, Chelsea, London, on 27 Nov. 1833, aged 84. A drawing by him, 'Fox-hunting the Death', is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Reinagle's daughter Frances Arabella was married to John Levett-Yeats, grandson of the English merchant and planter Francis Levett. His son, Ramsey Richard Reingate, was also an artist, and followed his father's style.
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