Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Johann Georg Pforr - English horses

 Salvete Omnes,

continuing with the horse of Johann Georg Pforr, today we can look at his English horses 

These images most likely were completed during the period of  Anglomania (the fascination with the English blood horse, horseracing and  English trainers,  grooms and jockeys) was sweeping continental Europe

 his oil painting conveys this sporty Blood horse  fahionista era

gorgeous bay and bay-roan of the groom, with a black cart horse in the background


and the water media

Bay horse looks much like the Turkoman horses of Central Asia


sporting a running martingale



Now docking of the tail was something else, and it is good we no longer keep this custom

Valete

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