The promenade 

Oil on panel 

Signed lower left

Dimensions: 20,5 x 27 cm

With frame: 36 x 43 cm

British painter JA Walker delivers here a most charming painting, far from the battle scenes he usually depicts. 

An elegant rider, wearing a marine bachi, walks in the countryside. He is accompanied by a second stallion and a dog that seems not to want to be forgotten. The naturalness and liveliness of the scene associated with a beautiful pictorial quality, specific to this horse specialist, are the assets of this painting.

Admitted to the Beaux-Arts in Paris in Picot's studio, he was a friend of Alphonse de Neuville, Jean-Georges Vibert and Berne-Bellecour.

He painted mainly military subjects, horses and battle scenes. At the 1887 Salon, he received an honorable mention for his painting, Lost way. He died at his Parisian home at the Villa des Arts on December 24, 1898.

Museums:

-Cowboys capturing a bear (around 1877), Art Museum of Denver.

-General Margueritte mortally wounded at Floing (Battle of Sedan),     Paris, Army Museum.

-Sète, Arab Alert, Paul Valéry museum