About the artist.

Descended from European hussars and Virginia cavalrymen, Andrea Kent grew up with a love of horses. As a child she was mentored by elderly horsemen and horsewomen born in the late nineteenth century, and she learned to cherish the old equestrian traditions of foxhunting and academic horsemanship.

She also grew up with a love of art. Her parents, an American designer and a European landscape artist, led her through the galleries, museums, and great houses of Europe and the United States, then sent her to art school for formal training.

Fascinated with history, Ms Kent was attracted to the superb art of the past. Later visits to the private collections and public galleries of England expanded her knowledge. She realized that art of the classical tradition still speaks to other horsemen and houndsmen as it does to her.

Her artwork today examines horses, hounds, humans, and wild creatures, set in pastoral English and American landscapes. She paints in two different styles: In original, antique-style paintings she portrays animals and people in styles favored by great sporting artists of the past, with human subjects in carefully-researched period clothing and horses with period-correct tack, set in tranquil landscapes.

She also creates modern realist portraits of animals and humans as well as realist landscapes, with the same exquisite detail and the same devotion to classical principles. Ms Kent's paintings have been added to private collections on both sides of the Atlantic, and have been placed at historic properties and in corporate boardrooms. She lives in the countryside outside of Washington DC with the horses and hounds that inspire her.