Watercolour Grey Partridges Game Birds Sheltering New Forest By Neil Cox

British Late 20th Century Ornithology Watercolour Painting Grey Partridges Wildlife Game Birds Sheltering In New Forest Moor By By Neil Cox.

Impress your clients & guests in your office or home with thisl ornitholgical wildlife nature study of Grey Partridges.

Title “Partridges sheltering in tall grass” by Neil Cox.

Subject ornithology animal bird study of grey partridge game birds sheltering on the ground in tall golden wheat grass together in the New Forest moor set in autumn time. Mist in the background on an overcast day.

Circa late 20th century 1980's.

Add a statement ornithology piece of artwork to your home or office wall space, impress your guests & clients.

A nice size with the frame being 56.5 cm wide and 47.8 cm high.

Medium watercolour.

Set in a the original decorative gilt frame with protective glass front cover which enhances this painting..

Signed by the known British artist Neil Cox.

In our opinion this is very fine example of his work.

Neil Cox is a known British Postwar artist who was born in the year 1955 down south, he grew up in London & he loved the natural environment and he painted animals especially birds from when he was very young. Its is known that he spent a lot of his spare time outside of his further education studies in the New Forest National Park where he watched & painted animals, particularly birds where his favourite subject.  He became a professional wildlife artist, he has exhibited and sold his works at many auction galleries & houses around the world like Christie’s, the current highest sold price is $4,597 US dollars which was for the work Pheasants foraging in bracken.

Provenance labels verso for Penn Barn by the Pond Buckinghamshire.

The grey partridge (Perdix perdix), also known as the grey-legged partridge, English partridge, Hungarian partridge, or hun, is a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds. The scientific name is the Latin for "partridge", and is itself derived from Ancient Greek perdix.
The grey partridge is a rotund bird, brown-backed, with grey flanks and chest. The belly is white, usually marked with a large chestnut-brown horse-shoe mark in males, and also in many females. Hens lay up to twenty eggs in a ground nest. The nest is usually in the margin of a cereal field, most commonly winter wheat.

With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home wall display. 

Incredible conversation piece for your guests. 

Condition report. 

Offered in fine used condition. 

Front painting surface is in good overall order. Having some craquelure & foxing stains in places. Glass cover has scratches and stains. Frame which has general wear also some losses & cracking, chips commensurate with usage & age.

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