Date:1918
Description:
Peter Spicer (1839 - 1935)
Bobbie Robin, 1918
Oil on card
340mm x 445mm
Peter Spicer is known as one of the greatest British taxidermists. He was also a keen artist, particularly of stuffed game, and exhibited at the Royal Birmingham Society Artists between 1879 and 1899. This painting may have been painted from a still life, with a stuffed robin. The Spicer family ran firms in Warwickshire from the late eighteenth century. In 1798 Thomas Spicer set up as a saddler and harness maker. The first taxidermist of the family was John Spicer (1811 - 1866), Peter Spicer's father, who had a shop in Jury Street, Warwick. Peter Spicer himself opened a shop at 4 Upper Parade, Leamington Spa, in 1860. The firm then moved to Victoria Terrace, and became Peter Spicer & Sons in 1904.
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Donor ref:LEAMG : A769.1992 (64/17822)
Source: Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum
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