W E Millner Large antique framed oil painting of shire horses being unyoked . W E Millner 1887Monogram W E MThis painting exhibited Royal Academy 1887 number 397William Edward Millner is Lincolnshire’s Victorian genre artist. Born in Gainsborough in 1849, the son of a local teacher and artist, Millner was to live and work in the county until his death in 1895. With his life falling directly within the Victorian era his artistic work shows a concentration of influences from both his surroundings and the leading artists of the genre. This talent was recognised within his lifetime as his pictures were shown several times at the Royal Academy and since, with his works being held by leading public art galleries and a significant collection housed at Gainsborough Old Hall Museum.A painter of rustic genre scenes and animals, especially horses, Millner lived all his life in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. His father, who had the same forenames and who died in 1870, was also a local artist and teacher; he exhibited two pictures at the British Institution in 1845.Millner exhibited eleven pictures at the Royal Academy between 1869 and 1896 (the last posthumously). Nearly all were genre scenes inspired by the day-to-day life of the Lincolnshire farming community. He is represented in the Tate by a single picture, A Wayside Gossip, dated 1872, and there are a number of paintings at the Gainsborough Old Hall Museum in his native town.Frame 37ins x 46ins x 3insCanvas 30ins x 40insDelivery and Insurance to most parts of UK and Ireland is included in price.Height is 91.4cm (36.0inches)
Width is 117cm (46.1inches)
Depth is 8cm (3.1inches)