Leland Mordaunt Dundas Lapwing Birds

An original 1920s watercolour painting – Leland Mordaunt Dundas, Lapwing Birds.

A very fine bird portrait painted in the 1920s–1930s by Captain Leland Mordaunt Dundas (1885–1961). This is one of a collection of animal paintings by Dundas that we have for sale, depicting 'big game' animals along with birds native and migratory to Africa.

Leland Mordaunt Dundas was a captain in the King's African Rifles and spent much of his life living in Africa. In Kenya he became a Land Ranger, District Commissioner and Magistrate. In 1927 he wrote and illustrated 'A Big Game Pocket-Book for Kenya Colony'; many of the paintings in our collection are the original artwork for this book.

The paintings form an interesting record of the animal species present in Kenya and the wider African continent at the time, by a talented and knowledgeable hand. They also represent the chequered history of man's relationship to wild animals and a period when an appreciation of these beautiful creatures was acutely intertwined with the 'sport' of hunting.

On watercolour paper. Please note the small size of this artwork.