Charles Church began to paint animals at a young age, but it was a two-year apprenticeship in Florence that enabled him to finesse his style. Today, the Italian city is the Western epicentre of traditional portrait training and it is this early grounding in form that Mr Church has carried into his professional career. He still paints portraits (including the Sultan of Oman in 2005), but he is best known as an equestrian artist and a painter of country life.
This depiction of a Charolais bull was the catalogue cover star at Mr Church’s 2022 London exhibition, ‘Pastures New’….
