The wheellock transformed warfare and shooting. Its place in the history of the shotgun and shooting is confirmed. The new mechanism, in existence by about 1500, employed an enclosed, sprung…
Art & antiques
Sir Alfred Munnings, sporting artist
Alfred Munnings is a name that every sportman wants on their wall. For the frugal a print, for the well-feathered a painting. He was simply an exceptional sporting artist, with…
Jeremy Houghton, sporting artist
Jeremy Houghton’s work is all about the spaces in between, which somehow convey the realities of the sports he depicts more convincingly than any amount of photographic detail. The forbidding…
David Shepherd, sporting artist
David Shepherd leaves a trail. If, on your next African safari, you stumble across a succession of anthills topped with sunglasses, tread carefully: you are on the trail of the…
Jason Lowes, sporting artist
Jason Lowes is based in County Durham. The watercolourist’s sporting art teems with coveys of grouse or partridges but what really draws you into his evocative work is the quality…
From pairs of Purdeys to percussion pistols: Holt’s Sale
The Field spent an enjoyable and somewhat indulgent morning browsing the Holt’s sale catalogue and picked out a selection of lots that illustrate the variety within. Pair of Purdeys, anyone?…
Society of Wildlife Artists Exhibition 2014
The wildlife artists who will be present at this year’s Society of Wildlife Artists Exhibition produce work that it is well worth making the trip to see. The exhibition will…
Sporting Artist: Alasdair Banks
There is a case to be made that the earliest art of all is sporting art. The paintings of horses, bison, lions and hyenas in the Chauvet Cave in France’s…
Nic Fiddian-Green at Masterpiece London
Masterpiece is a show like no other and this year has brought the artistic process as well as its product to the Royal Hospital Chelsea. The Sladmore Gallery has recreated…
AUCTION: Holt’s Modern and Antique Guns 19 June 2014
A rare Holland & Holland 12-bore 1911 patent ‘DUPLEX’ choke boxlock ejector ‘Aero’ gun goes under the hammer at Holt’s with, even more rarely, an original ‘Zeppelin’ cartridge. Designed for…