Following a hunting fall, the hound saved the earl’s life by running back to the castle to raise the alarm, recounts Terence Reeves-Smyth
During the mid-1880s, the Earl of Antrim presented the Kennel Club in London with a life-sized mid18th century oil painting of an enormous hound that generations of his family considered to be a representation of an Irish wolfhound. The picture became the focus of much public attention, for at that time there was strong disagreement among breeders as to the true appearance of these dogs. Some believed the breed to have long become extinct, many maintained it was really a form of greyhound, others that it was a Scottish deerhound, while George Graham of Rednock, who founded the Wolfhound Club in March 1885, was busy breeding what he believed to be the authentic hound.
The legacy of stained-glass artist Helen Moloney is in the vibrancy of her colours and her use of coloured glass and lead lines in an abstract manner, writes Bart Felle
Tom Climent’s recent paintings appear to edge more and more away from pure abstraction, writes Mark Ewart
Margo Banks is so instinctively attuned to her subject that her energetic approach and her subject matter are inseparable, writes Isabella Evangelisti
