bronzes

guy · bronzes

Not overly impressed with these.

http://www.stanbentall.com/brittany.html

doganjo

American maybe?

Patricia

Put a tail on them and it's a Setter! Mad

Have you seen the price of them? Yuk...

guy

now these have charm IMHO

Lin Dyke

Exactly my thoughts too Patricia.

Guy, I also like the second set.

Victoria

Lose not the Substance for the Shadow...that is thougth provoking!!

Wyngold

Definately American Field dogs...
Dannyquest products are a little bit more American Show type.

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guy

guy

I just don't know why your pictures don't show - i have tried adding my own - that i know work to your posts but to no avail - hence the double post.

Wyngold

Of course if you have a spare 16,000 US you can purchase one of the 6
original Fath Bronze of the Cournouille dog which is available at the William Secord Gallery in NY. Right now 3 of these are in the USA.
2 were given to the ABC by Stuyvesant and were used as Trophies for the National Field championships. One was retired so is in the home of the one who won it 3 times. The other is in permanent possesion of the ABC and the 3rd for sale in the gallery in NY.

guy

That is interesting - I have seen a bronze Fath plaque of a Brittany - which has inspired another of my little projects Laughing

guy

wow - back up the lorry -what a beautiful site.

bronze here
http://www.dogpainting.com/art_detail.cfm?Reference_Number=RF_9

if only i had money.

Wyngold

[quote="guy"]That is interesting - I have seen a bronze Fath plaque of a Brittany - which has inspired another of my little projects Laughing

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The 4th one I know is sitting on the shelf in Herve's office, and the clay version Willems got from Marchand was displayed in Callac.
They had a Fath head on clay but that was sold sometime last year.

What is really interesting is the Oil painting of Brittany with "dark" nose by an AMERICAN artist prior to 1900's. So if the ABC wanted to know
if Black was a contaminant as we all know that is not the case!

But yes web surfing the Breton in art is facinating especially when you get to the Danish painters.

Wyngold

If one ever visits the Southern US specifically the Bird Dog Museum in TN
there is an Original painting by Boris Riab commissioned by Mrs. Marcell Bell of Belloaks kennel fame in the USA of her Dual champions.

staandejachthond

ill think your richt.. setter without a tail...not a breton; it is missing the "cobby" chest and its "forehead"(?)...ore the nose is to long.. Confused

the picture off the bronze hunter with breton from guy is much better...
there you see the breton immidiatly as it should be.... Wink

eddieh

I did find the website of somebody in Northant's who would do a bronze of your dog. Can't find it now but I think the price was c£3oo. Not that much for a personalised sculpture, especially when you think that I bought a limited edition bronze setter for £85 in the early 80's when my dog cost £80

doganjo

I think we were about £60 for this one in 1985 - don't know what it is made of though, feels quite heavy - and it's broke, as you can see. Front leg missing altogether and back leg armature has come away from the main body. The back line is more or less level when the back leg is attached. Hope you can fix it Guy, unless you think it's worth taking it to Bill?

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guy

determining the material - would need to see it closer; however I would guess at a resin of some sort considering the date and purchase price.

the extant leg would repair easily with a little adhesive. The missing one then modeled in a two part polyester resin - that can be found on the high street as car body filler (grey) and painted with a bronze powder pigment mix. There are metalised fillers - for repairing would you believe metal, but you would never match the colour without artistic endeavour afterwards. There are also epoxy putties in colours. Any of these materials would do as they could be carved once set.

If it is metal- then I would think a resin repair is still teh order of the day.

Patricia

Anne, I have the same one Cool

It is a statue made of resin and done by John Bickley, Norfolk. Designed from a copy of a dog from John Hill in 1989. John makes statues in both bronze and resin, the latter being considerably cheaper but still very nice to have...He is well known for satues of hares and they are wonderful...
I have a china one made by Nothern Light, a liver and white...It is quite nice too( for some reason it looks better in that colour than Orange)

Victoria

Patricia, does he have a website??

Patricia

Victoria...That is all I could find on him.
http://www.pinkfootgallery.com/johnbickley.html
I know we went to his home in Norfolk after the Bunwell field trial to collect a couple of resin Brittanys. He still has the mould.
Somehow they did not sell on the shop's table and I ended up selling one to David hayes in Ireland. I have the other as I like it...
Cool

If they were bronze they would be really expensive Confused

doganjo

Patricia, how much were they - the same ones as you and I have?

Dave A

Some of the best examples i have seen , came from an Italian chap who exhibited at Crufts a few years ago, I had his card, The Brittany flushing a bird was about £4,000

Dave A

doganjo

Do you have hisdetails, Dave - I might just buy a couple as book ends Wink

Dave A

Don't think so,but i will have a look you need to look after your books, joking apart it would be worth a look for the shear quality of finish.

Dave A

Victoria

eddieh

I like Dr Johnson's cat. Mainly because it reminds me of the nearby pub. A fine Pedigree drunken

staandejachthond

well nothing saying to much; today i received from guy a little gift because i have send him dutch "drop".

its is from a polyester resin but it is beautiful litlle gift........
so......we have a breton sculturest within the forum.....

again ill say; thanks for the gift Guy......

guy

I can lay no claim to that being my work - it is a cast of an original.

I have however done this one based on your one - if you see what I mean - changed the nose, some of the fur and foot detail and the shape of the ground; then patinated the bronze.

Wyngold

Cast or not nice nice nice ! ! !

Victoria

Guy, that is beautiful...

staandejachthond

Guy; even if its is a copy.... its still is a nice gift.....not the price off it but the meaning off the gift is what it means. just a nice gift... Very Happy

but the bronze that you are showing; even if its a "chanced" copy; its a beautifull peace, very nice.
Wink

guy

toying with the idea of doing a series of these - bronze, silver, silver gilt and gold. Then using them as trophies for a Brittany retrieving competition - four different levels to give progression.

doganjo

What a superb idea - would this be an annual competition or just for one event?

guy

I think perpetual - otherwise no progression available to contestants.

I will post some ideas on another thread for comment.