A Superb Early 20thC Oil on Board of A Racing Pigeon; R.N. Robert c.1914 sub-Antiques Late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century

Late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century parents commissioned likenesses of their offspring for the same reasons that prompt us to bedeck our youngsters in Sunday-best attire and haul them off to the photographer's

with some loss

The box has some obvious signs of use: there are old scratches

On one of the dogs a crack has been fill repaired and matched in that runs around dogs shoulders from one side to the other with some chips to the ears and base

A Superb Early 20thC Oil on Board of A Racing Pigeon; R.N. Robert c.1914 sub-Antiques Late eighteenth and early nineteenth-centuryOrigin: British Period: Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1914 Canvas Height: 11. 25 inches Canvas Width: 7. 75 inches The Whole: 16. 5 X 14 inches The framed and glazed oil on board study depicting a racing pigeon in profile with ringed leg, against a summery sky and a burnished orange ground with a flying flock in the distance is signed R. N. Robert and dated 1914 lower right, presented in the original quality gilt frame with