{"id":3870,"date":"2017-02-07T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2017-03-15T00:27:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T00:27:32","slug":"john-cowling-of-colne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/02\/07\/john-cowling-of-colne\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cowling of Colne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I knew him he was in his eighties, very interested in horses and being in the open air.\u00a0\u00a0 I think he had made a living by being a Carter (moving and delivering material by horse drawn cart). The paintings and drawing were done in situ at Johns&#8217;s pen and the dappled horse was called Dexter.<!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3855\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/John-Cowling.png\" alt=\"John Cowling water colour painting William Lonsdale artist\" width=\"670\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/John-Cowling.png 670w, http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/John-Cowling-242x300.png 242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3857\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/JohnHorse.jpg\" alt=\"Dapple horse water colour painting William Lonsdale artist\" width=\"1024\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/JohnHorse.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/JohnHorse-300x190.jpg 300w, http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/JohnHorse-768x486.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the 1914 &#8211; 1918 war he served I think with the 17th Lancers as a farrier and was still doing his own horse shoeing in the 1970s.\u00a0 I do remember making a drawing of an exhausted pony which he had purchased at Clitheroe Auctions and the animal was resting by lying down in John&#8217;s pen after they had both walked all the way home to Colne that day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3856\" src=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/John-Cowling1.png\" alt=\"John Cowling pencil drawing William Lonsdale artist\" width=\"745\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/John-Cowling1.png 745w, http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/John-Cowling1-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/John-Cowling1-300x297.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He was a much respected and very steadfast man with many friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I knew him he was in his eighties, very interested in horses and being in the open air.\u00a0\u00a0 I think he had made a living by being a Carter (moving and delivering material by horse drawn cart). The paintings and drawing were done in situ at Johns&#8217;s pen and the dappled horse was called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[101,102,103,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4088,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions\/4088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamlonsdale.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}