Welcome
Summer, 2009
The Sporting Gallery, now in its 46th year in business, is one of the premier sporting and animal art galleries in the U.S. Primarily known for its strong stable of contemporary sporting and animal painters and sculptors, the gallery also presents significant works from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Throughout four decades the gallery directors have also sought to diversify the gallery's focus by offering fine American and European landscapes, still lifes and genre paintings, both antique and contemporary.
Visitors are welcomed, without pressure, and are encouraged to seek answers to questions about works on view, artists represented, and art in general. The staff is knowledgeable and collector-friendly.
Artists who regularly stage one-person exhibitions with the gallery include Mark Eberhard, Peter Sculthorpe and Valerie Hinz. The Gallery also hosts various "themed" exhibitions and invites the best artists from around the country to present their works throughout the year.
The gallery also carries excellent examples of work by 19th and 20th century English and American sporting artists and has in its inventory (or recently sold) works by Henry Alken, Paul Brown, Lionel Edwards, John F. Herring, Edgar Hunt, Michael Lyne, Lanford Monroe, Sir Alfred Munnings, John Nost Sartorius, John Skeaping and Franklin Voss.
In addition to fine art, the gallery also specializes in unique and unusual sporting and animal related collectibles including fine porcelain, glassware, Austrian bronzes, books and jewelry.
The gallery is located in the historic Duffy House (built circa 1820) in the center of Middleburg, Virginia. This uniquely beautiful building provides a perfect setting for the display of fine paintings and sculpture. Often described as comfortable and inviting, most rooms have a separate fireplace with antique mantle, hardwood floor and heart of pine paneling. The Gallery has been featured in the following publications: Architectural Digest, Spur, Gourmet (destinations), The Equine Image, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Hounds (UK) and Middleburg Life.