Portrait of the Sporting hound, Ruth

Origin

United States

Period

19th Century

Materials

oil on canvas

Dimensions

W.	55 in;	H.	43 in;
W.	139.7 cm;	H.	109.22 cm;

Creation Date

1867

Description

Signed: Robt Moore pinx
For Robert Moore (b. before 1816-1894).
Clark or Bourbon County, Kentucky
Dated 1867

Robert Moore resided in Winchester, Clark County Kentucky by the mid-1850’s. He placed ad in local newspaper The National Union advertising his services as a portrait and animal painter. The family who commissioned this portrait of Ruth is not yet known, but Moore has sympathetically portrayed Ruth in a horizontal orientation against a flat background, a trademark of his animal portraiture.

Original frame.

Styles / Movements

Realism

Incollect Reference Number

311915