Dutch Horses from the ealy 1800s - Pieter Gerardus van Os

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when I was preparing  my  post about the Dutch horses in the XIX century art by Anton Mauve's brushwork  I looked up his teachers and teacher's father . One of teachers was Pieter Frederik van Os whose father was  Pieter Gerardus van Os.

Pieter van Os lived during the Napoleonic Wars and in 1813-14 he was a militia officer, a captain, and he participated in the warfare, like the siege of Naarden.

here are some of his horse and cow paintings and prints

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Raffaello Sorbi - Italian genre painter

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let us start with a short rather 'pintoresco/picturesque' entry of this Tuesday

Raffaello Sorbi (1844-1931) was a Florentine Italian painter specializing in genre painting.

This painter had some wonderful brushes - just breathtaking skills and talents - eg wiki gallery. 

but let us keep to to horses - here are some of his horse and horse-related work, and some of the hunting dogs of the era

enjoy

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Albrecht Adam - 1812 campaign cavalry and horses

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 there was this Bavarian painter, when Bavaria was still a kingdom, and had their own military, including cavalry arm of their armed forces.
Albrecht Adam lived a long and productive life - born in 1786 and died 1862AD, almost 10 years before the Prussian Hohenzollern kings unified Germanies into one state or empire. He was one of the foremost painters of horses and equestrian subjects ...

During the Napoleonic Wars he became a court painter to prince Eugene de Beauharnais and thus took part in the tragic and disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812. During the campaign Adam kept on drawing marching troops, camps, battles and scrimmages, and from these drawings he created a book of prints titled 'Voyage pittoresque et militaire de Willenberg en Prusse jusqu'a Moscou'  published in Munich in 1827.

Polish National Library Polona digitized this book and voila , you can peruse it here.

the 2nd plate in this book shows the dragoons of the Italian guard (there were 2 dragoon regiments of the king's guard within the Grand Armee IV Corps commanded by prince Eugene) encamped in Wielbark (Willenberg in then Kingdom of Prussia) on the 10th of June 1812.

 

and a close up on the horses

 and next plate showing the market in Mragowo (Sensburg of the Prussian Kingdom) on June 13, 1812. It was pretty much a Polish town as most of East Prussian was back then. Germanization of the local inhabitants was to follow during the XIX and XX century.

 we have here cavalry horses and cart horses and various wagons of the quartermaster of this corps

 

to be continued

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