Straight through the horse’s ears
TO gaze at a Lionel Edwards hunting scene is to feel the wind and hear the hounds. Few artists capture the sport as he does, because few knew it as he did. As he said: ‘However admirable the artistic treatment, a real understanding of what is happening is absolutely necessary.’
Edwards’s love for the countryside and all its inhabitants was nurtured during his childhood in north Wales. His education was irregular due to the family’s straitened circumstances, but his habit of sketching sustained him; he completed his first hunting drawing, of a huntsman and hound, at the age of five.
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