BIO
Cecil Aldin was born on April 28 1870 and died on January 6 1935. His full name was Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin and he has become very famous as a brilliant British artist and illustrator.
Cecil Aldin tended to focus on painting of animals in a country setting with a preference for the wide variety of dogs he used or created as subjects. His Vintage Art Prints
His considerable talents allowed him to stand out among the artists of the early 1900s which included such names as Alfred Munnings, Lionel Edwards, Gilbert Holiday, GD Armour.
Aldin’s father, who was a keen amateur artist, encouraged him to pursue a career where he could showcase his talents. Alden began basic sketching as a child, and went on to formal training at the National Art Training School (later renamed as the Royal College of Art) which included training by the well known Albert Moore.
Later on, He was much inspired by Frank Calderon, an exceptional mentor who ran a summer school for animal artists. Other students of this school included Alfred Munnings and Lionel Edwards.
Aldin loved painting and sketching dogs and horses throughout his life. He showed them at rest, at work, and also hunting, racing and most other common sporting activities. To this day, most of his most popular work shows dogs and horses during a hunt, although his sketches of the many varieties of dogs at rest, or in a playful mode are in high demand as collectable antique prints.
It was, however, in the hunting field that Aldin found some of his finest subjects. His hunting prints, consisted of actual hunts and imagined ones, often funny in nature, and immensely popular.
He created a large volume of work, and there are few sportsmen who have not wished to have or have actually purchased one of his books, an original print or a reproduction of his works.
Cecil Aldin had the very unique ability to capture the true characteristics of the many dogs and animals he studied. All of his talents were greatly appreciated by his contemporaries, and the public at large, and have resulted in a wide array of collectibles available today which feature his famous dog images.