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Passionate Customer Service Museum Quality Art Prints Customization Options AvailableThe British Spitzweg, a later Hogarth? Yes and no. All three were successful painters, Franz Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885), however, only posthumously, after the Second World War. All three depict "society and its customs", and this with humor. But in William Hogarth (1697-1764), who is considered the founder of caricature, it is bile-bitter. His engravings ironically and bitingly expose the society of the 18th century. In contrast, the paintings of Walter Dendy Sadler (1854-1923) - like those of Spitzweg - are more humorous and quirky. Grievances are not maliciously exposed, but oddities or quirks almost lovingly portrayed. In the case of Walter Dendy Sadler, there is also the fact that - unlike Hogarth and Spitzweg - his subject is not contemporary society at all. From today's point of view, his pictures seem old-fashioned, of course - but that was actually already the case during his lifetime. For his pictures "take place" at the end of the 18th, beginning of the 19th century, in the pre-Victorian era, when the Industrial Revolution had not yet seized all areas of life, when time did not yet seem so fast and life not yet so hard. He skirted "difficult" subjects, anything that could seriously offend, i.e.: politics or sports, and painted for his audience "the good old days," the yearnings of the middle classes, often with a wink. He was not alone in this - there was a whole series of so-called genre painters who, for example, served the expectations, needs and prejudices of their often aspiring bourgeois clientele in rural idylls, tavern or everyday scenes. Many of them came from the Düsseldorf School of Painting, which was internationally renowned for its genre painting in the 19th century. It also influenced Walter Dendy Sadler, who spent several years studying in Düsseldorf in the 1870s.
Sadler was already extremely successful during his lifetime; he exhibited in the British art institution par excellence, the Royal Academy; in the USA there was hardly a home without a print of his paintings at the beginning of the 20th century. His works fetched high prices in Europe and America, as recently as 2000 at a Sotheby's auction nearly $200,000. Perhaps it is even Sadler's paintings that have provided us with the images of the typically quirky Englishman. For some of them could also be snapshots in the lives of James and Miss Sophie from "Dinner for One" or the Puritan couple in Monty Python's "Meaning of Life." In fact, Sadler built veritable stage scenes for his "sketches" and hired his village neighbors (he moved to the tiny nest of Hemingford Grey in 1897) as models, whom he opulently outfitted in the style of times past. Village staff and props were often recycled for several paintings, so that a smirk of the viewer also comes from the recognition of whimsical groups in different paintings. And he loved already somewhat lived-in interiors, overloaded with trinkets and decorations, and often chose - as a human counterpart to the lived-in props - elderly people as the main characters of his miniatures.
The British Spitzweg, a later Hogarth? Yes and no. All three were successful painters, Franz Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885), however, only posthumously, after the Second World War. All three depict "society and its customs", and this with humor. But in William Hogarth (1697-1764), who is considered the founder of caricature, it is bile-bitter. His engravings ironically and bitingly expose the society of the 18th century. In contrast, the paintings of Walter Dendy Sadler (1854-1923) - like those of Spitzweg - are more humorous and quirky. Grievances are not maliciously exposed, but oddities or quirks almost lovingly portrayed. In the case of Walter Dendy Sadler, there is also the fact that - unlike Hogarth and Spitzweg - his subject is not contemporary society at all. From today's point of view, his pictures seem old-fashioned, of course - but that was actually already the case during his lifetime. For his pictures "take place" at the end of the 18th, beginning of the 19th century, in the pre-Victorian era, when the Industrial Revolution had not yet seized all areas of life, when time did not yet seem so fast and life not yet so hard. He skirted "difficult" subjects, anything that could seriously offend, i.e.: politics or sports, and painted for his audience "the good old days," the yearnings of the middle classes, often with a wink. He was not alone in this - there was a whole series of so-called genre painters who, for example, served the expectations, needs and prejudices of their often aspiring bourgeois clientele in rural idylls, tavern or everyday scenes. Many of them came from the Düsseldorf School of Painting, which was internationally renowned for its genre painting in the 19th century. It also influenced Walter Dendy Sadler, who spent several years studying in Düsseldorf in the 1870s.
Sadler was already extremely successful during his lifetime; he exhibited in the British art institution par excellence, the Royal Academy; in the USA there was hardly a home without a print of his paintings at the beginning of the 20th century. His works fetched high prices in Europe and America, as recently as 2000 at a Sotheby's auction nearly $200,000. Perhaps it is even Sadler's paintings that have provided us with the images of the typically quirky Englishman. For some of them could also be snapshots in the lives of James and Miss Sophie from "Dinner for One" or the Puritan couple in Monty Python's "Meaning of Life." In fact, Sadler built veritable stage scenes for his "sketches" and hired his village neighbors (he moved to the tiny nest of Hemingford Grey in 1897) as models, whom he opulently outfitted in the style of times past. Village staff and props were often recycled for several paintings, so that a smirk of the viewer also comes from the recognition of whimsical groups in different paintings. And he loved already somewhat lived-in interiors, overloaded with trinkets and decorations, and often chose - as a human counterpart to the lived-in props - elderly people as the main characters of his miniatures.
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.jpg "A Good Story by Walter Dendy Sadler")
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.jpg "For Always by Walter Dendy Sadler")
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.jpg "His Favourite Bin; and Testing the Vintage by Walter Dendy Sadler")
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.jpg "The Connoisseur by Walter Dendy Sadler")
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.jpg "The Tailors by Walter Dendy Sadler")
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.jpg "Preparing the Punch by Walter Dendy Sadler")
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.jpg "Corked by Walter Dendy Sadler")
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.jpg "In the Camp of the Amalekites by Walter Dendy Sadler")
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.jpg "Great Expectations, from the Exhibition of the Society of British Artists by Walter Dendy Sadler")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-196238).jpg "A Breach of Promise, published 1895 by Walter Dendy Sadler")
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