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Lionel Edwards Hunting, Racing , Military and Equestrian Artist
Lionel Edwards at work in his studio at Buckholt

Lionel Edwards Hunting, Horse Racing and Military Artist was born at Clifton in 1878. Lionel Dalhousie Robertson Edwards was the son of a Chester Doctor. He studied under A. S. Cope at South Kensington, Heatherleys and Frank Calderon. A keen hunting man, Lionel Edwards spent his life combining hunting and painting. Most of his paintings he worked from sketches made on the spot. During the First World War, Edwards worked in the army Remount Service. Lionel Edwards illustrated for many periodicals. These included The London News, The Graphic, The Sphere, and The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News. He also contributed to Country Life and The Tatler magazines. He made a living painting sporting pictures. Edwards had many hunting prints produced after his paintings. The early prints were of a caricature type, but as time progressed his work became more traditional. In the 1920’s Lionel Edwards painted a series of pictures of named hunts entitled ‘Shires & Provinces’. Lionel Edwards Hunting Countries as they were also known, were produced as limited edition prints. Watercolour was his favourite medium, though he used oils more often in later life. When talking of Edwards as an artist, no one can hold a candle to his pencil work. After Munnings, Lionel Edwards is the most important sporting artist of the hunting field during the first half of the twentieth century. Lionel Edwards also illustrated more than 100 books. Stella Walker best described him in her book ‘British Sporting art in the twentieth Century’. She called him “The grand old man of sporting art”. His career spanned more than six decades. Lionel Edwards died in 1966.