A Pair Of Swanssigned Arthur FitzWilliam (lower right)Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1819 – 1905) was a British-American artist who is known mostly for his paintings of wildlife.During most of his career, he was associated with the New York City art scene.During the late 1840s he became aware of the Americas while attending a George Catlin exhibition in Paris. He immigrated to the United States in 1850, where he established a small painting camp in the Adirondacks to paint during summer. Starting in 1852, Currier & Ives reproduced lithographies of his works to publicize him. What also promoted his talent was exhibitions held at the National Academy of Design, New York during the late 19th century showing more than 200 paintings of his. In 1858 he was elected to full membership of the Academy.Tait's "The Reprimand" (1852), at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City shows a rural girl "warning" a deer.He was identified with the art life of New York until his death at Yonkers, New York in 1905. He painted barnyard fowl and wild birds as well as sheep and deer, with great dexterity, and reproductions of his minute panels of chickens had an enormous vogue.In 2006, Tait's painting Good Hunting Ground: The Home of the Deer was auctioned for $167,300.50*60cmoil on canvas.Provenance :Private Collection, UK, since circa 1960