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    Art in the field

    May 16, 2019 3 minutes

    ICONIC sporting artist Lionel Edwards died, aged 87, in 1966, long before most of us had even started hunting. So how can it be that when you re-imagine your own red-letter days following hounds the picture in your mind’s eye is a Lionel Edwards’ painting? Edwards depicted huge hedges, cavernous ditches and impregnable walls being cleared, in front of a backdrop of leaden skies and old, yellowed turf. Today, these images are rare even in sporting fantasies – did such scenes really exist

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