Edmund Henry Osthaus (1858-1928)

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  Self Portrait with Three Setters, 1911
  signed and dated "© 1911 by Edmund Osthaus" lower left
  oil on canvas, 21 3/4 by 29 1/2 in.
  This rare self-portrait depicts Edmund Osthaus himself cleaning his double barrel shotgun while three eager setters look on. It is one of only two known self-portraits that have surfaced in the last twenty-five years, and one of only a handful of figurative works by the artist. Painted in 1911, it was likely reproduced by the DuPont Company for a calendar.

  The painting is accompanied by a signed photograph of the artist, inscribed “To my good friend H.W. Lancashire, Faithfully Yours, Edmund Osthaus.” Herbert W. Lancashire, the grandfather of the current owner, was a prominent businessman in Toledo, Ohio, where Osthaus led the Toledo Academy of Fine Arts and founded the Toledo Art Museum.

  Edmund Henry Osthaus was born in Hildesheim, Germany in 1858, the son of a prosperous farmer who subsequently emigrated to Toledo, Ohio. Osthaus studied at the Royal Academy of the Arts in Dusseldorf from 1874 to 1882 with Andreas Muller, Peter Jansen, E. von Gebhardt, Ernst Deger, and wildlife and landscape painter Christian Kroner.

  In 1883, after studying painting for six years, Edmund Osthaus became an instructor at the Toledo Academy of Fine Arts. He served as the director from 1886-1893, refining his painting technique and pursuing his passions: hunting and fishing. In 1893 Osthaus dedicated his full attention to painting, shooting, and field trials. He was a charter member of the National Field Trial Association established in Newton, North Carolina, in 1895. “Edmund Osthaus followed field trials from the fall prairie chicken trials in Canada to the important quail trials in the South in mid-winter, judging, sketching, and sometimes entering his dogs. He was a handsome, powerfully built man," and his artistic talent combined with his love of dogs enabled him to capture the essence of the focused working dog while depicting them in precise anatomical detail.

  "Any painter who paints for shooting men had better be a shooting man himself, for no one is more jealously critical of detail than the man who knows guns and dogs and game... Edmund Osthaus, who trained and shot over his own setters and pointers, transformed oil paint into dog flesh quivering under the stress of a point."
  Provenance: A Private Club, Wisconsin

  Custer Antiques, Toledo, Ohio

  Private Collection, Houston, Texas
  Literature: Kay and George Evans, "Dogs that Live Forever," Field & Stream, Vol. LXXV, No. 2, June 1970, pp. 234-240.
  

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