William Henry Standing

Draft Horses (set of three)

Known internationally as one of the leading artists in the UK right now, Coward excels in equine paintings and is the only artist to have won the Presidents medal three times. Artist...

Oil on canvas. Signed, dated 1863 Provenance: Grubbs Auction, June 8, 1984 Christie’s, New York
; Bartlett Burnap Turner was a British artist who has been referred to as “Horse Fa...

Fairs have played a central role in the city of Chester for nearly a millennium and can be traced back to 1092, when Earl Hugh I granted Chester Abbey all the tolls, rents, and issue...

Armour gre up in Liverpool and graduated from the University of St. Andrews and the Edinburgh College of Art. After his time in college he would move to Morocco to buy horses and wou...

Set of 3 antique prints titled 'Engelsch Jagtpaard', 'Engelsche wedrenner' and 'Engelsch Jagtpaard'. Old hand colored prints of English horse breeds. These prints originate from 'Vol...

French School 19th Century, Studies of horses, two drawings in the same frame 7 x 11 cm (oval) and 7 x 9.8 cm pencil on paper Condition : The oval one on the left with foxings (see...

James Seymour (1702-1752) The Portraiture of the Famous Horse 'Old Partner' The Portraiture of 'White Nose' Engraved by Richard Houston Image size 14 x 16 in Framed size 16 x 18 in ...

Horses is an etching realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind", London, Bensley, 1810. Good conditions. Johann Caspar Lavater was a swiss theologian and philosopher known throughout Europe for his studies on physiognomy. Following the physiognomy tradition of Della Porta and of many Renaissance and Baroque philosophers, he believed that the character of a person could be elucidated through examining their “lines of countenance" i.e. tracing a profile outline portrait. Being able to "read outside" was the key to "know the inside". Lavater's thought largely influenced Art in the late 18th and early 19th century, as in the case of Johann Fuseli and William Blake (who realized two etchings for Lavater's English edition of his Essay). Lavater was convinced that he could show his theories by analyzing the portraits of some of the main historical figures of the past, in some cases taken from paintings or (mainly for antiquity...