Aspire Auctions - John Emms

John Emms (British 1843- 1912)

John Emms born in Blofield, Norfolk in 1844 died 1 November 1912 in Lyndhurst, Hampshire. In London he assisted Frederick Leighton (later Lord Leighton) in his studio. It was during the time that he was taken by Leighton to help paint a fresco in a church in Lyndhurst, where wildlife abounded and the local gentry loved his work. He was an avid hunter and became famous for equine and canine paintings (particularly foxhounds and terriers) and exhibited several times at the Royal Academy, beginning in 1866. His paintings are signed Jno Emms. Emms and his wife lived in Lyndhurst and in 1881 built a large house and studio named The Firs, where Emms lived for the rest of his life. He is celebrated for his depictions of hunting dogs; with an arrestingly lifelike quality, and his popular scenes of rural British life and hunting.

September 2006 Fine Arts and Antiques Auction
Lot 13. Hunting dogs resting after the hunt. Oil on canvas, signed near the lower right corner, canvas size 24-1/4" x 30", with a gold metal leafed frame overall 30-3/4" x 36-3/4". Several hounds and a small terrier at rest in the corner of a stable interior. There is a label on the back of the stretchers that is similar to an address label sending the painting to Mrs. A. W. Barrett, Roadcoach Kennels, Needham, Mass, from Gerald Massey, "Ayr Lodge", 136 Upper Tulse Hill, London, S.W.2. There is also a fragment of another label at the upper left corner, with no information left.
75000.00/150000.00 Sold $125,350.00