Pigeons Glenister Pilot & Blue Cock (c. 1930 ENG)

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17.50 inch wide   13.50 inch high

44.45 cm wide  34.29 cm high

24.00inch framed width   20.00inch framed height

60.96 cm framed width  50.80 cm framed height

A pair of pigeon portraits: "Glenister Pilot" & "Blue Cock", painted for Willatt & Son of Greenwich in 1929 & 1936. Oil on canvas within black stained oak frames of the period.
Edward Henry Windred (1875-1953) was a painter of racing pigeons in London from the 1920s through to the early 1950's.
From the earliest days of organised pigeon racing, special prizes have been awarded for outstanding performances and particular events. Today these are often photographs but in the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century it was common for a portrait painting to be commissioned of the winning pigeon.
Demand for such trophies was at its hieight in the 1920s when several artists were working in the field. Notable amongst them were E.H.Windred in London, Andrew Beer in Bristol and South Wales and J.Browne in Northumberland and Cumberland.
He may originally have been a miner but he came to London and lived in or near New Cross Gate railway station. He was not trained as an artist and in fact was actually a barber by trade. His lack of training resulted in an unusual technique for capturing the shape and stance of his subjects. He had a number of silhouettes of pigeons made up in cardboard or ply which he would match up to the pigeon. Once he had found the shape that fitted best he would draw around it to get the outline of the bird. To get the colours of the feathering right, Windred would keep a few feathers after the bird had been returned to its owner and use these as a guide.

gbp 2750.00 (Pound Sterling)

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