The Home Team (Children walking a dog) - Arther Elsley - (Genuine and Vintage) - Poster - 28 x 23

The Home team

NB. The Picture just shows the Picture, and leaves the Border out (Where the picture goes to the Border, the sizes will be the same)

All these sizes are approximate and in inches:
Poster including the border = 28 x 23
Just the picture with the Border removed = 26 x 19

These posters are unframed, and are sent rolled in a sturdy tube

However, these Posters can be framed if you wanted them to be, please contact us if you would wish them to be framed for Prices and Postage costs

Arthur John Elsley was an English painter of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, famous for his idyllic genre scenes of playful children and their pets. He achieved great popularity during his life and much of his work appeared in calendars, magazines and books.

By the age of eleven, Arthur was turning out proficient animal studies made during frequent visits to the London Zoo in Regent's Park. Aged fourteen, he enrolled in the South Kensington School of Art, but his eyesight had becume permanently damaged by a bout of measles.

Elsley took up the post of probationer at the Royal Academy Schools in 1876. here he was influenced by Frederick Pickersgill, Edward Armitage, John Marshal, and Henry Bowler.

A large number of his paintings were inspired by sketches

Elsley was awarded a silver medal in the Crystal Palace exhibition of 1891 for his painting "The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington".

After the death of Charles Burton Barber, Elsley became his natural successor as the foremost painter of children and their pets.

Elsley hardly ever leaving his studio. It was thought that these indoor painting methods aggravated his already faulty vision. During World War I. He contributed to the war effort by working on bomb-sights in a munitions factory, straining his already poor eyesight. By the early 1930s he was able only to carry out woodworking and gardening.