Lot 115: Alfred Grey, RHA (1845-1926) DAIRY HERD ON A PATH, WITH A THATCHED ROOFED HOMESTEAD BEYOND signed lower right oil on canvas 64 by 51cm., 25 by

Alfred Grey, RHA (1845-1926) DAIRY HERD ON A PATH, WITH A THATCHED ROOFED HOMESTEAD BEYOND signed lower right oil on canvas 64 by 51cm., 25 by 20in. Notes:Born in Dublin, Alfred Grey was a son of Charles Grey RHA (1808-1892) and a brother of artists Edwin Landseer Grey, Gregor Grey, James Grey and the engraver Charles Malcolm Grey. Alfred specialised in animal portraiture and landscape painting and nearly all his pictures have some form of livestock in them, usually highland cattle. Queen Victoria commissioned him to paint a number of her favourite views in the Scottish Highlands. He first exhibited at the RHA in 1864 and continued almost annually until 1924.