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John Frederick Herring Sr. (12 September 1795 – 23 September 1865), [1] also known as John Frederick Herring I, was a painter, sign maker and coachman in Victorian England. [2] [3] He painted the 1848 "Pharoah's Chariot Horses" (archaic spelling "Pharoah").
The paintings of Giuseppe Castiglione show the bodies of horses in full, their manes being of a different color from the body. [4] He represented them from different angles, [4] suggesting movement through the lifting of the limbs. [7] He also indicated a light source to attenuate the tints, and thus give the horses a volumetric effect. [4]
Later he and Richards traveled to the Holy Land where he painted horses, Damascus, Syria cattle, the Dead Sea and the bazaar of Damascus while Richards bought Arabian horses. Bethany College, West Virginia, retains copies of some of these paintings. [2] In 1869, Troye moved his family to a 700-acre (2.8 km 2) cotton plantation in Madison County ...
As a student, Degas had filled his notebooks with drawings of horses. During a tour of breeding farms with Paul Valpincon and after exposure to horse races, Degas appreciated the movement of the horses and the colors of the jockeys uniforms. He wanted to make his paintings seem spontaneous as if he'd captured a passing moment. [2]
The Races at Longchamp is an 1866 painting by the French artist Édouard Manet. The Impressionist painting depicts the ending of the Second Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp. It is currently in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. [1] [2] This painting is one of four depictions of the same subject that Manet created over four years. [3]
Horse and Train was inspired by both J. M. W. Turner's 1844 painting Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway, [1] as well as a couplet excerpt from South African poet Roy Campbell's 1949 poem: Against a regiment I oppose a brain And a dark horse against an armoured train. —
Richard Stone Reeves (November 6, 1919 – October 7, 2005) was an American equine painter whom Blood-Horse magazine described as perhaps the greatest modern-day horse painter. [1] Born in New York City, Reeves grew up in Garden City on Long Island. His father's family included a painter and his mother's owned race horses.
Hancock succeeded John Ferneley in supplying paintings of Derby and St Leger winners to Ackermann who was publishing prints of these classic racehorses in competition with S. & J. Fuller at the time. [6] [7] [8] For the last 30 years of Charles Hancock's life he suffered from heart attacks. He died on 30 July 1877 at Blackheath. [9]