A chestnut coloured greyhound standing in a verdant landscape with a country cottage just visible in the far distance. Signed 'James Clark' (lower right) and dated 1899.

Oil on canvas in a giltwood frame.

James Albert Clark was born in London into a family of animal painters on 17 February 1863 to artist James Clark and his second wife Frances Mary Anne  Parsons. He had four older half brothers who were also artists; Samuel James, Albert, Charles Lawrence and Octavius Thomas Clark. As a teenager he collaborated with his father on some works signing them as James Clark and Son.  Like his father he specialised in portraits of race horses, prize winning livestock and dogs and supplemented his income by working as a conservator for a local auctioneer.