Hare is the main focus, but York artist Mark Hearld also finds a place for hoopoe and goldfinch

Hare takes centre stage, but note also the other wildlife 

 

A HOOPOE and a goldfinch found their way into a painting of a hare  by highly-rated York-based artist Mark Hearld (50). 

The study exceeded estimates when it went under the hammer at a sale  conducted earlier this month at the home in Leyburn, North Yorkshire, of Tennants auctioneers.  

The  lithograph, measuring 54cm by 74cm, sold for £800 against an estimate of between £200 and £300. 

It is believed the work was partly inspired by the 15th Italian Renaissance artist Pisanello whose studies of hare and hoopoe are shown below.

How Pisanello depicted the hoopoe

And this is how he painted the hare