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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.
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").
Collection of paintings of the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille: Harnham Ridge from Archdeacon Fisher's House, Salisbury: 1829 National Gallery of Ireland: Portrait of a Child with a Dog: National Gallery of Ireland: Arundel Mill and Castle: 1837 Toledo Museum of Art: Study for “The Leaping Horse” (View on the...) Saint Louis Art Museum ...
The painting measures 40 inches (100 cm) by 88 inches (220 cm) and gives a satirical view of Victorian society. It includes three main scenes, during the annual spectacle of the Derby, when large numbers of Londoners left town for the day to visit the races on Epsom Downs Racecourse, presenting a cross-section of society in a contemporary saturnalian revel.
The Derby Stakes, also known as the Derby or the Epsom Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in England open to three-year-old colts and fillies. It is run at Epsom Downs Racecourse in Surrey on the first Saturday of June each year, over a distance of one mile, four furlongs and 10 yards (2,423 metres), or about 1½ miles. [ 1 ]
The painting was Géricault's first exhibited work and it is an example of his attempt to condense both movement and structure in his art. [1] It represents French romanticism and has a motif similar to Jacques-Louis David's Napoleon Crossing the Alps, but non-classical characteristics of the picture include its dramatic diagonal arrangement and vigorous paint handling.
Gustavus (1818–1840) was a Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1821 Epsom Derby. Gustavus was the first grey horse to win the Epsom Derby. He raced until he was four years old and was retired to stud in 1823. Gustavus was exported to Prussia in 1836, at the age of 18. Gustavus was not a successful sire.
Waxy's trainer, Robert Robson (center) with jockey Frank Buckle (left) and John Wastel in a painting by Benjamin Marshall, c. 1802. The Epsom Derby occurred on 18 May and was attended by "as numerous a company as ever appeared on the course." [6] Eleven horses lined up for the start, seven of them sired by Pot-8-Os. [7]