On the scent of Emms - sporting scene hunted out at auction
It was while working as a studio assistant to Lord Leighton in the early 1860s that John Emms (1841-1912) travelled to Lyndhurst in the New Forest, a trip that would define his career as a painter of dog portraits and sporting scenes.
By 1881 he had settled there permanently, painting hounds at kennels and on hunts across the New F…