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I also have various Fine Art prints of various Dogs,Cats,Birds,Animals,Wildlife, Horses,Owls by various artists from 1680 up to the 1950′s.

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I have 4 Types of BILLIARDS Playing Funny Dogs on Fine Art Pictures called:

‘The Hustler’, Jack The Ripper’, ‘The Scratching

Beagle’, ‘Hey One Leg On The Floor’.

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The 13 other Types of Sports Playing Funny Dogs on Fine Art prints are called: ‘The Golfing Slice’, ‘The Losing Bet’, ‘The Poker Friend’, The Peeing Dogs’, The Dogs Bath’, ‘The Motorbiking Dogs’, ‘The Driving & Drinking Dogs’, ‘The Partied Out Dogs’, ‘The Dogs Beer Drinking Competition’, ‘The Chess Playing Dogs’, ‘The Dice Playing Dogs 1′, ‘The Dice Playing Dogs 2′, ‘Football Playing and Spectating Dogs’. Please click on Link Below:

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Dog breeds on Original 1930′s Fine Art prints by J. Des Clayes. Please click on link below:

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Dog Breeds by various artists from 1680 up to 1950′s. Please click on link below:

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Horses and Jockeys on Fine Art Prints by various artists from 1780 up to the 1930′s.

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Wild and Pet Birds,Owls on Fine Art Prints by various artists. Please click on Link below:

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Various Vintage Cars 1900-1913 on original Fine Art Prints from the 1950′s. Please click on link below:

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Various Hot Air Balloons on Fine Art Prints from 1780 up to 1830. Please click on link below:

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All art prints are 15 1/2” X 11 3/4” in size and sold each for £14 + £8 Post and Packing per Order.

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Louis Wain was born in London’s Clerkenwell district in 1860 and eventually became an artist, selling his sketches of dog shows to the Illustrated Sporting News. He married his youngest sister’s governess, Emily Richardson, which was considered quite scandalous at the time.

Louis William Wain studied at the West London School of Art, and began his career as an art journalist. However, it was for his pictures of cats that he eventually became famous. From the 1880s until the outbreak of the First World War, the ‘Louis Wain cat’ was hugely popular. Appearing in prints, books, magazines, post-cards and annuals, Wain’s cats are to be found engaging in every form of human activity – from playing cricket, digging up roads, and riding bicycles, to parading the latest fashions at Ascot and making pompous after-dinner speeches at the club.

His wife contracted breast cancer and died three years later. To entertain her on her sickbed, Wain started drawing their cat, Peter. Emily encouraged him to send these drawings to newspapers and magazines, and soon the Louis Wain cat was a household name, not only in Britain but also in America, where his comics and drawings of cats appeared in several newspapers.

Louis Wain was elected as President of the National Cat Club and wrote the book ‘In Animal Land with Louis Wain’ in 1904. Wain continued drawing cats for newspapers and children’s books until he fell victim to schizophrenia in 1917 at the age of 57 ( He fell off an Omnibus and hit his head ).

During the onset of his disease at 57, Wain continued to paint, draw and sketch cats, but the focus changed from fanciful situations, to focus on the cats themselves. Characteristic changes in the art began to occur, changes common to schizophrenic artists. Jagged lines of bright color began emanating from his feline subjects. The outlines of the cats became sever and spiky, and their outlines persisted well throughout the sketches, as if they were throwing off energy.

Coupled with WWI and the public dwindling interest it cats, Wain soon fell into poverty and in June 1924, he was certified insane and committed to Springfield Hospital (the former Surrey County Asylum) at Tooting.

‘Discovered’ by a hospital visitor the following year, he was transferred to Bethlem Hospital. after a campaign by admirers of his work, including the Prime Minister Ramsey Macdonald, King George & H.G.Wells a foundation was set up for him which enabled Wain to spend the last years of his life in comfort in private asylums in Southwark and Napsbury, where he continued to paint and draw his cats. The Hospital was at that time at St George’s Fields, Southwark.

In 1930 Louis Wain was transferred to Napsbury Hospital , near St Albans . He continued drawing until near the end of his life, and exhibitions of his work were held in London in 1931 and 1937. He died at Napsbury on 4 July 1939. Louis wain is buried at Kensal Green Cematary London in the same buriel plot as his family. Alas, the plot is now very neglected.

I am a collector and seller of Louis Wain 1860-1939 Funny Cats and Dogs on Fine ArtPrints. My aim is to spread the name and humour of a great Cat,Dog and Animal Artist. If you would like to see some of his work please visit my hobby website. My collection totals 200+ Modern Art Prints and Pictures which are on display and for sale at my website:**** http://www.fabprints.com *******