CHARLES HAYES - Teal Male [watercolour]

Painting. Illus. by Charles Hayes. Fine. mounted. Signed by THE ARTIST. Original. 230mm x 180mm. Male Teal. An original mounted watercolour. The image measures approximately 230mm x 180mm (Portrait) plus an acid free mount giving a total size of 420mm x 350mm. Signed by the artist to the bottom right hand corner. Condition is fine. [Charles Hayes (1772 - 1826) Charles Hayes was the son of the celebrated ornithological artist William Hayes (1735 - 1802). Examples of the work of Charles Hayes have appeared in auction, both in London (at Christie's and Bonhams) and also in the provinces. William Hayes (1729-1799) was a bird illustrator from Southall, Middlesex. Nissen IVB 421-422 identifies two printed books, and Mullens and Swann (pp.286-288) four printed books giving William as the author. The advertisement for each of the two volumes of William Hayes's Portraits of rare and curious birds?.?at Osterley Park (1794-1799) informed the reader that the work on the plates had been done by himself and 'seven of his pupils'. We know that the Hayes family did all the work on the text, drawing, etching and stippling, also the colouring of the plates, and that the seven pupils were Hayes's children, perhaps also his wife Anne. Charles is named as one of the sons of William on the title page of The Portraits of British Birds (1808-1816; Nissen IVB 420; Mullens and Swann p.286), and perhaps these original watercolours were part of that production which has either 120 or 144 plates. See Christine Jackson Bird Etchings 1985, pp.133-135; Wood p.503.] 0.