Iwan Leroy Lotton was a prolific, partially self-taught artist producing realistically executed oil paintings (primarily consisting of hunting dogs and race horses) commissioned by private owners and collectors throughout the United States.  Most of his oil paintings were generated from photographs of the dogs in action in the field with many images taken by Mr. Lotton himself who was also quite a skillful photographer who developed his own film in a small darkroom that he built i (showing 500 of 4720 characters).