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James Ward established himself as the leading painter of livestock after the Agricultural Society had commissioned him to paint 200 portraits of representative breeds of cattle, sheep and pigs in 1800. Although he aspired to be a painter of grand allegorical and classical scenes, his most lucrative subject was thoroughbred horses and he enjoyed great prosperity until about 1820. 'The Swineherd' was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1810, the year that Ward was elected to full membership. His combination of the working man and the pigs shows a different side of rural life to idealised country scenes. During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries English pigs were often crossed with imported breeds, with the aim of producing an earlier-maturing pig.
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
Bristol
Title
The Swineherd
Date
1810
Medium
oil on panel
Measurements
H 83.2 x W 123.8 cm
Accession number
K1703
Acquisition method
purchased, 1947
Work type
Painting
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
Queens Road, Bristol, Bristol BS8 1RL England
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