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Harry Hall (c. 1814 – 22 April 1882) was an English equestrian painter, whose works were in demand by horse owners. His output was prolific and he was the foremost racehorse portraitist of his time: his style has been described as being "strikingly modern... when compared with many of his contemporaries". [ 1 ]
Articles concerning the appearance of the horse in any type of visual artistic format other than film and television, which are categorized under Category:Horses in film and television. Stories about horses should be categorized at Category:Fictional horses
The horse appears less frequently in modern art, partly because the horse is no longer significant either as a mode of transportation or as an implement of war. Most modern representations are of famous contemporary horses, artwork associated with horse racing, or artwork associated with the historic cowboy or Native American tradition of the ...
The Hobby Horse started publication in 1884 as the first high quality magazine committed solely to the visual arts. [3] "The Century Guild Hobby Horse" was one of the last (and in many ways the ultimate) versions of the literature and art journal, a genre born with the Pre-Raphaelite Germ in 1850.
Other paintings of horses by Géricault include Officer Hunter Horse of the Imperial Guard Charging (1812) and Race of Free Horses in Rome (1819). [2] This work is a rare and valuable example of painting dated from his travel in England, when Géricault preferred to work in lithography. It was painted for the English horse dealer Adam Elmore.
Four Afghan Steeds (Chinese: 爱乌罕四骏图) is a series of four portraits of Afghan horses donated to the Qianlong Emperor of China in 1763 by Emir Ahmad Shah of Afghanistan, and painted on a silk roll by the Milanese Jesuit missionary Giuseppe Castiglione.
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Painted in Tahiti, the work was not immediately sent to Europe, going instead with the artist's luggage from Tahiti to the Marquesas Islands.In 1903, from Hiva Oa in the Marquesas archipelago, Gauguin sent it to his dealer Ambroise Vollard Paris, making this work and nine others the last shipment he sent to France before his death.