MAJOR GODFREY DOUGLAS GILES (1857-1941)
The Galloping Squire




Watercolour, signed G D Giles and dated 1911.
(The full title as recorded on the mount reads - The Galloping Squire. In the wake of his darlings, all ear and all eye.)
Image size is 10" x 7".
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Major Godfrey Douglas Giles was a noted painter of horses, military scenes and battles, many experienced at first hand while on service with the British Army in India, Afghanistan, Egypt and South Africa. He retired from the army in 1884 and went to Paris to study under Carolus-Duran. His paintings were exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy. He lived in Newmarket but in 1899 returned to South Africa and contributed greatly to the pictorial record of the Boer War with works on display in museums in both South Africa and in England. Giles also illustrated books, including The Ward in Hunting Poems by G.J. White-Melville, 1911.