Arthur Wardle

Arthur Wardle was born in 1864 and is one of the best known English canine painters from the turn of the 20th century. A prolific and successful artist, he painted a variety of different animals and wildlife although his name is most associated with dogs, and with terriers in particular although he painted almost every type of pedigree dog during his long career. Wardle appears to have had little by way of formal training and his work was widely reproduced both during his lifetime and thereafter. He painted in watercolour, pastel and oil, and many examples of his paintings can still be seen today in public collections. Perhaps his best known painting now is a view of a fox terrier, with the title The Totteridge XI, which now hangs in the Kennel Club in London. Arthur Wardle died in 1949.