Richard Buckner
Woolwich 1812 – London 1883

A Portrait of a Young Girl with a Cocker Spaniel

oil on canvas

36"×28" (91.5 cm×71 cm)

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NOTE: In this portrait of a young child with a spaniel sitting in a landscape Buckner reveals his debt to the great painters of the eighteenth century; one can discern shades of Sir Joshua Reynold’s paintings of children, whilst as a colorist he is reminiscent of Lawrence. As a portraitist he enjoyed considerable patronage, and his admirers included figures of such stature as Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, Queen Adelaide, Lord Kilmorey and the Duke of Hamilton.

In the opinion of Jeremy Maas, "He was one of the few portrait painters of the nineteenth century whose work could hold its own when hung in country houses alongside the work of Reynolds and Gainsborough."

- J. Maas, Victorian Painters 1970.

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