George Earl (1824 - 1908)

George was a London sporting and animal painter, primarily of sporting dogs and other animals who exhibited at Royal Academy from 1857 to 1883, also at the British Institute and Suffolk Street. George specialised in sentimental or dramatised pictures of dogs. He painted a large number of round and oval portraits of Dogs. Earl was a keen sportsman and this is reflected in his work and reputation as a dog painter. He was also an early member of The Kennel Club. Although chiefly remembered as a canine artist due to his success depicting them, of the nineteen paintings Earl exhibited at the Royal Academy only two were of dogs.

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