oil on canvas 18 x 16 in. (45.7 x 40.7 cm.) Painted in 1962. The present work is a study for the remarkable painting Mr. Hollingberry’s Canary, 1963 (Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston), and perfectly captures Ruskin Spear’s mastery of the intimate narrative of pub life. Here, he depicts the surroundings of the ‘Hampshire Hog’, one […]
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Hogarth's Cat – 1963
From the setting and subject matter, this painting would seem to be set in The Hampshire Hog Pub, chiswick.