Borzoi in art

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Vintage UK postcard, hand painted.
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vintage
1910
Vintage Dutch Photo Postcard, hand tinted
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hand
1920
Vintage Postcard France, hand coloured.
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France

 
1896
Arthur Wardle "Book Ilustration"
Arthur Wardle
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Wardle

Drawing from the book "A history and description of the modern dogs of Great Britain and Ireland"
1930
Arthur Wardle "Headstudy, three Borzois"
Arthur Wardle
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Three heads
Three Borzois

 
1945
Hutschenreuther-Germany-1945-49
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statue

Hutschenreuther-Germany-1945-49

 
1928
Henry Crowther " Brutus Pride of Mount Vernon"
Henry Crowther
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brutus

 
Henry Crowther "Olga of Haywra"
Henry Crowther
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Olga
Painting by Henry Crowther

 

1883
Pyotr Petrovich Sokolov "Huntsman with Borzois"
Pyotr Petrovich Sokolov
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Hunter

 
1870
Pyotr Petrovich Sokolov "Rewards for hunting at the veranda"
Pyotr Petrovich Sokolov
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veranda

 
1915
Addlestone 1915
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Vlasto
  

Mrs. A. Vlasto with her borzoi, Veda of Addlestone, Rolf of Addlestone, Rainbow of Addlestone, and Grand Duchess of Addlestone: winners of four 1sts, team, and dog and bitch championships, and brace prize won by Rainbow and Grand Duchess at Crufts - 1915.
1915
Ch Ramsden Radium
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Radium

 
1897
George von Meyer "Varvar Perchino"
George Konstantinovich von Meyer
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varvar
1886
Nikolai Semenovich Samokish
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Nikolai Semenovich Samokish
from UK DOG WORLD
Perhaps because of the breed’s connection with one of the most autocratic and art loving Royal households, there are some wonderful pictures of Borzois. One such picture is the subject of this week’s column. Painted by Nikolai Semenovich Samokish (1860-1944), it is titled ‘The Hunting Party with Tsar Alexander III and Tsarina Maria Fedorovna’.
Fox hunting with Borzois and without guns is a typical Russian type of hunting. It usually took place in early October, which can be clearly seen in the autumn landscape. The Tsar and Tsarina are accompanied by the master of the hunt, Tschertkov Grigori, on the chestnut horse. They seem decidedly indifferent to the ‘kill’ that is being presented to them and far more interested in posing for their picture! To the right of the picture the traditional hunters breakfast is being prepared.
In the picture the Tsar, who was an avid hunter, is wearing the uniform of the bodyguard of the Izmailovsky Regiment. He did not like the presence of women during the chase and made an exception only of his wife, who was also an avid hunter.
Favourite hunting areas for the Tsar included the vicinity of Gatchina just south of St Petersburg, Bailowiez and the area around Lowicz where this picture was probably painted. The Imperial Kennels were situated on the Tsar’s hunting estate at Gatchina and were avidly carried on by his son, Tsar Nicholas II, but the quality of hounds from the royal kennel was never regarded as outstanding. The kennel was run by Prince Boris Galitzin.
The best hounds in Russia in the 19th century were owned by Nicholas’ cousin, Grand Duke Nicholai Nikolaievitch Romanov in Perchino, Tula, just south of Moscow. It was from this kennel that the American millionaire, Joseph Thomas, bought some very good hounds to help establish the breed in America. In 1892 the Grand Duke sent a big group of his hounds over to Crufts, a number of which were bred in the Imperial Kennel of the Tsar. At that time it was common practise to give a selling price in the catalogue but all those bred by the Tsar were not for sale.
Each large estate in Russia had its own kennel until 1861 when the serfs were freed from what was really slavery. Many estates went bankrupt with the new concept of paying the labour force, and the serfs were also allowed to buy land for the first time. It has been said that a lot of sons sold their father’s estates to fund a life of women and wine in the big cities and as each estate was disbanded, so too were the Borzoi kennels.
Somokish painted the picture of the Tsar and his wife in 1886 during the months after finishing at art school with a gold medal and before entering the studio of Édouard Detaille, the Paris based academic and military artist. It is being sold by Dorotheum in Vienna in their sale of 19th century paintings on the April 17 with expectation of between 150,000 and 200,000 euros and has come to auction from a private collector in Germany.
1900
Oskar Pflug
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Oskar Pflug

mirza
Ch Nachal Wuttki & Mirza Ural

 

1990
Cartoon by Sara - "Stacked"
Sara
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Cartoon by Sara

 
1925
Metal Stampings Corporation Card Table
Metal Stampings Corp.
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A folding card table top featuring a Borzoi and person, created by The Metal Stampings Corporation, 1925.  Very rare item, artist unknown.

Card table top

 
1851
John McLeod Borzoi
John McLeod
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John McLeod Painting
British Painter John McLeod's "Borzoi"