John Sargent Noble, R.B.A. (1848-1896)

Watching the Stalkers is one of John Sargent Noble's most monumental pictures. When exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1883 the Art Journal called it a 'very promising bit of animal painting, introduced into a landscape which smells of fresh air'. It ranks alongside The Keepers Pony (Cheltenham Art Gallery) and On The Moors (Sunderland Museum). Noble studied at the Royal Academy and was a pupil of Sir Edwin Landseer whose influence can be seen in these works of such grandeur of conception.