Arthur Wardle

Artist

Arthur Wardle

Birth

February 5, 1864

Birthplace

London

Death

July 16, 1949

Place of Death

London

Gender

Male

Nationality

Britain

Movement

Classicism

Media

Painter

Arthur Wardle was born in London. He was a self taught artist who specialized in animal paintings and sporting subjects. Wardle also made a large number of superb studies of animals, usually in chalks on colored paper. His paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists at Suffolk Street. Many of his paintings were reproduced on cigarette packages, postcards, calendars and boxes of chocolates. Wardle was one of the finest late Victorian painters of dogs, often combined with a beautiful woman.