Period Sporting Art

 

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Oil on panel, 18” x 24”

In the eighteenth century, hunt staff did not invariably wear red coats; contemporaneous paintings show professional staff wearing the beige, brown, or buff long coats that were their daily attire. The tan tops of their boots folded up over their knees in bad or wet conditions. Hunt horses often had docked tails, and sometimes docked ears. With its muted sepia and golden colors, the landscape in this work is reminiscent of Stubbs's The Fifth Earl of Carlisle's Groom William Shutt riding his Master's favourite Chestnut (1773), which is in the collection of Castle Howard. The original is available, or the image can be acquired as a fine giclee print.

 

Oil on linen, 24” x 30”

The Canadian is an old breed, a progenitor of the Morgan and American Saddlebred; Canadian horses were brought to Virginia in the early 17th century. This is a portrait of a horse who, as a sire, made an important contribution to the breed. His owner wanted her superb animal portrayed in a manner that would reference the breed's historic roots. Horse and groom are posed in the owner's beloved Rappahannock County.

A Lady Riding a Chestnut Mare by a Lake
oil on linen
18” x 24”

No Spurs Required
oil on linen
16” x 20”

 
Schooling Levade
oil on linen
20” x 24”

Oil on canvas, 18” x 24”
(Collection of Cleydael Historic Foundation)

Lion, A Bay Stallion Belonging to Colonel Massie, Led by a Groom.
Oil on linen, 20" x 24”

A Gentleman of Coburg Dressing His Horse in Trot
oil on Belgian linen
12" x 16"

Bay Horse Trotting with a White Hound.
Oil on canvas, 18” x 24”

A Cream Entire by a Watercourse
oil on panel
12” x 16”

Bay Horse with Pied Hound.
Oil on canvas, 16” x 20”
Collection of Mr and Mrs Jonothan Sutton, Wiltshire, UK

 
The First Time
An American Lady and Her Child with a Chestnut or Cream Horse
oil on linen
16” x 20”

Morocco in Training
Oil on canvas, 24” x 30”

Roseberry, A Stallion of Cleveland

The Yorkshire horses were coaching and light draft animals that were the progenitors of today's Cleveland Bay breed

Flying Jib
oil on linen
24" x 30"
Collection of C. Krispen Culbertson, Esq., Greensboro, NC

Mr. Greene Creighton dressing a chestnut Horse at Sunset