Portraits of equine expressions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century paintings

 Slavete Omnes,

University of Michigan Digital Collections 

 from the Journal of Veterinary Behavior come this libre article -Portraits of equine expressions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century paintings by Denise Pereira Leme.

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It is free and about horse paintings, so why not to peruse it?  -   as the the proverbs go:

-don't look a gift horse in the mouth

-darowanemu koniowi w zęby się nie zagląda

-a caballo regalado, no le mires el diente

-Даровому коню в зубы не смотрят 

And what a joyous opportunity to share some great equestrian art on this blog 

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enjoy

Valete

 

Sir Briggs and other horses by De Prades

 Salvete Omnes,

Tredegar House obelisk, Wales, UK

  from the English countryside come this unusual obelisk to commemorate a horse - a 15 hands tall bay stallion named Sir Briggs. Briggs went to the Crimean War theater as a mount for Captain Godfrey Morgan, of 17th Lancers aka Light Dragoons UK, and galloped with his rider into the Valley of Death during the Charge of the Light Brigade.

Probably in 1854 Sir Briggs, then still just Briggs, was painted by Alfred F. de Prades (French-English, 1825-1885), one of the XIX century British Empire preeminent equestrian and portrait painters.

Sir Briggs lived through the war and died, age 28, at Morgan's estate in 1874.

and here in Cardiff, Morgan and Sir Briggs sculpted in full lancer and war steed glory on a pedestal

sculpture by sir William Goscombe John

Below,  some more of Alfred F. de Prades' works:

starting with his canvas from 1838, when he was but a 13 years old boy.

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a portrait of a horse

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@ Christies

enjoy

Valete

Adolph Menzel - horses and soldiers etc

 Salvete Omnes,

a quick illustrative post - on the equestrian etc themes within Adolph Menzel's works.

Adolph (1815-1905), knighted in 1898 as von Menzel, was a native to Prussian Silesia (born in Wroclaw, old seat of the Lower Silesia), and throughout the XIX century became the preeminent German and Prussian painter of the era in the German states and since 1871 the German Empire. 

Herr Adolph was skilled master in oils, gouache, drawing, printing, 

etchings and woodcuts.

enjoy

Valete

Jan Rosen - Amazon

 Salvete Omnes,

Polish painter Jan Bogumil Rosen (1854-1936) is famous for his equestrian and military-themed canvas - like the the immortal battle of Stoczek. 

He also painted portraits (in 1882), and here w have a very large painting - 73,6" by 66,5" (187cmx169cm)
I don't think his art has been published in an album, so it is kind of difficult to find a definitive collection of his life work. There is a collection of Jan B. Rosen' recollections written down by Anna Leo, published in Warsaw 1933. It is in Polish language and available to download on Polona - Polish National library.

His lineage is interesting, on one side he was the descendant of a famous astrologer Jacobus Leo, brought to Krolewiec/Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad), Ducal Prussia, by the Prussian duke Albrecht in the XVI century. His ancestors on maternal and paternal sides originally were of Jewish faith  but they converted back in the XVIII century etc to various Protestant denominations. His Warsaw ancestors were native to Warsaw, of wealthy bourgeois family, doctors and lawyers, scientists and artists etc.

per his art studies, Jan B. Rosen was educated under the tutelage of Jozef Brandt at the Academia of Fine Arts in Munich (Polish artists' veritable 'Mecca' during the Partition period) and later in Paris (Adacemie des Beaux-Artes) under Jean-Louis Gerome and Isidoreer Pils.

He was married to Wanda Hantke, daughter of the famous Polish Partition-period industrialist Bernard Ludwik Hantke, and they had one son who was the famous muralist Jan Henryk de Rosen (1891-1982) and two daughters, Zofia who was a sculptor, and Maria. 

Have a nice Saturday 

Valete