"James Alexander WALKER (1831 – 1898) British - The Walk"
Oil on panel
Signed at the bottom left
Dimensions: 27 x 20.5 cm, With frame: 43 x 36 cm
Beautiful XIXTH frame, gilded with gold leaf to come.
J. A. Walker, British painter, gives us here a most charming painting, far from the battle scenes that he is used to representing.
An elegant horseman, wearing a marine bachi, is walking in the countryside. He is accompanied by a second stallion and a dog who seems to want not to be forgotten. The naturalness and liveliness of the scene associated with a beautiful pictorial quality, specific to this specialist in horses, are the assets of this painting.
Admitted to the Beaux-Arts in Paris in Picot's studio, he is a friend of Alphonse de Neuville, Jean-Georges Vibert and Berne-Bellecour.
He painted mainly military subjects, horses and battle scenes. At the Salon of 1887, he obtained an honorable mention for his painting, Lost Way. He died at his Parisian home in the Villa des Arts on December 24, 1898
Museum:
-Cowboys capturing a bear (circa 1877), Denver Museum of Art.
-General Margueritte mortally wounded at Floating (Battle of Sedan), Paris, Army Museum.
-Sète, Arabic alert, Paul Valér Museum