23rd March 2;00pm
Painting Winners: Racehorse portraits from Flying Childers to Frankel
Racehorse portraits have been at the heart of sporting art since the late seventeenth century. Wootton, Seymour, Stubbs, Ferneley, Munnings and many more have memorialised champions and lesser animals for their owners. Flying Childers, Whistlejacket and Eclipse continue to be celebrated as works of art as well as racehorses. Others have lost their identity to appear in auction catalogues as ‘brown racehorse with jockey up’. This talk explores the history of racehorse portraiture and what these pictures can tell us about the development of racing over the centuries.
Tim Cox worked for nearly forty years in the media department of an advertising agency. In parallel he collected books and other printed material related to the worldwide history and organisation of thoroughbred horse racing and breeding. The collection of 18,000 books is now housed in a custom-built library. Tim is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the British Sporting Art Trust and co-author of The Heath and the Horse: A History of Newmarket Heath, a major study on the history of horseracing published in 2015.
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Painting Winners: Racehorse portraits from Flying Childers to Frankel
Racehorse portraits have been at the heart of sporting art since the late seventeenth century. Wootton, Seymour, Stubbs, Ferneley, Munnings and many more have memorialised champions and lesser animals for their owners. Flying Childers, Whistlejacket and Eclipse continue to be celebrated as works of art as well as racehorses. Others have lost their identity to appear in auction catalogues as ‘brown racehorse with jockey up’. This talk explores the history of racehorse portraiture and what these pictures can tell us about the development of racing over the centuries.
Tim Cox worked for nearly forty years in the media department of an advertising agency. In parallel he collected books and other printed material related to the worldwide history and organisation of thoroughbred horse racing and breeding. The collection of 18,000 books is now housed in a custom-built library. Tim is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the British Sporting Art Trust and co-author of The Heath and the Horse: A History of Newmarket Heath, a major study on the history of horseracing published in 2015.
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