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

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Tethart P. C. Haag & horses in brush and pencil

Salvete Omnes,

Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, princess of Orange

let us trot to the empirical century aka the Age of Enlightenment and their horses as seen and painted by one Dutch artists - Tethart Philipp  Christian Haag (1737-1812), painter to the rich and famous of the era.

Willem or William of Orange, husband to Frederica Wilhelmina  

                                                                                                 a riding school - 

                                                                                            Portraits of horses

English blood horse, a flat saddle with surcingle

Arabian horse

more military - 

Mr Haag's brushwork enjoys popularity at the auction block - eg  this painting below has been sold at Sotheby's 

another one was sold at Sotheby's - can be seen via  Invaluable auction portal.. 

a chestnut horse and a soldier - a detail from the above painting

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