'LEARNING POINTS.' OIL ON BOARD (Nightingale, Basil)
BASIL NIGHTINGALE 1864 - 1940.
Original oil on board. Titled and signed 'LEARNING POINTS.' A vixen and her two cubs watching a curled up hedgehog. Rich colours. A fine painting. This has since been reframed.
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Basil Nightingale was born in 1864 at Maldon in Essex, England. He was the youngest son of Robert Nightingale (1815 – 1895) a noted painter of equestrian, animal and still-life subjects, by whom he was probably trained and with whom he collaborated on some pictures.
Basil Nightingale is believed to have worked at Melton Mowbray for some time, which is probably where he painted several portraits for the Quorn and Belvoir hunts, including his famous picture of Tom Firr, huntsman to the Quorn, on Whitelegs.
He was a noted sportsman as well as a prolific artist and a painting of Lord Lonsdale (Master of the Quorn) jumping a railway track carries the inscription that Lonsdale is depicted breaking the record for a wide jump set by Nightingale himself.
Nightingale worked in Oil, watercolour and pastel, producing work of high quality from an early age. He painted a large number of hunting scenes as well as racehorses for the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. He moved to Leamington, Warwickshire in 1902 and later to Banbury where he died in 1940. Warwickshire holds quite a number of his works!
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