At the Blacksmith's Shop
Located in Lexington, KY
Provenance: Private Collection Cross Gate Gallery / Fasig-Tipton Auction, Saratoga Springs, New
19th Century English School Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
At the Blacksmith's Shop
Located in Lexington, KY
Provenance: Private Collection Cross Gate Gallery / Fasig-Tipton Auction, Saratoga Springs, New
Canvas, Oil
Carriage Horses
Located in Lexington, KY
painting professionally in 2013, and has skyrocketed since then. She has exhibited at the Mall Galleries in
Oil
L.H. Smith Esq. Master Island Foxhounds
Located in Lexington, KY
one of the gates before the hunt. Fox hunting has a rich history in Ireland and in Europe as a whole
Oil
Hyde Park
By Frederic Whiting
Located in Lexington, KY
A painter and a printmaker, Whiting is well known for his portraits and equine paintings. He mainly worked in London and studied at the Royal Academy, and many of his works are hung ...
Oil
Bromeliad
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Lexington, KY
This early Hunt Slonem interior piece was painted in 1977. In 1980, they published an edition of 250 serigraphs of this painting. The large scale is a perfect focal point for any roo...
Oil
Morning at the Track
By Randall Davey
Located in Lexington, KY
Born in New Jersey, Davey specializes in Still life, sporting, and landscape scenes. Polo was his favorite subject to paint and to teach. He taught art classes and polo lessons, this...
Oil
Coming Out of the Pack, Flat Race Finish
Located in Lexington, KY
Peter Biegel was one of the foremost painters in the sporting art world, and his passion for hunting and racing is very known and is prominent throughout his works. Biegel has painti...
Oil
Chestnut in a Landscape
By John Ferneley Senior
Located in Lexington, KY
Early talent being recognized, Ferneley was both apprentice and friend to Benjamin Marshall, learning his lessons well. In 1809, he married an Irish woman and moved to Melton Mowbray...
Oil
Heading to Post
By Quang Ho
Located in Lexington, KY
Ho came to America with his family at age 12 in 1975. His interest in art was apparent as early as age 3, and he graduated from the Colorado Institute of Art in 1985 with the Best Po...
Oil
Deux Chevaux de Course et Leurs Jockeys
By Henri (Comte) Geoffroy De Ruille
Located in Lexington, KY
Though talented enough to exhibit at the Paris Salon multiple years, works by the artist are rare. While the artist worked primarily in bronze, depicting equine scenes, he also produ...
Plaster
Looking Him Over
Located in Lexington, KY
Skeaping began his formal artistic training at age 13 and was successful from an early age. This individualistic artist also served as an intelligence officer, traveled extensively, ...
Watercolor
A Check at Tamboro
Located in Lexington, KY
Educated at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy Woolwich, Young was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in 1914 and served throughout World War I. He rose throu...
Oil
$9,500
H 23 in W 30 in
Mr Martinson’s Nancy With Job Marson, Jr. Up and the Trainer Job Marson Sr. 1851
Located in Lexington, KY
The following is an account of the 1851 Goodwood Cup from the Sporting Magazine: We have now arrived at the event of the day par excellence ...The Goodwood Cup, value 300 sovereign...
Oil
A Young Windsor Grey
Located in Lexington, KY
Little is known about this fine painter except that he showed his work at the major exhibitions. His subjects ranged from sporting, coaching, and military scenes to still lifes and p...
Oil
The Meet and the Kill
By John Frederick Herring Jr
Located in Lexington, KY
Known to his contemporaries as “Fred,” the junior Herring painted farm and equestrian scenes similar in subject matter and style to those of his father. His paintings are chiefly dis...
Oil
Le Prix de Paris, 1933 - Le Prix De Diane 1937 (a pair)
By Eugene Pechaubes
Located in Lexington, KY
Signed and inscribed. The Prix de Diane, also known as the French Oaks, is a celebrated flat race held each June at Chantilly. Reserved for 3-year-old fillies, the race spans 2,10...
Oil
Norman’s Rock
By Sir Alfred James Munnings
Located in Lexington, KY
Literature: Alfred Munnings, The Autobiography of Sir Alfred Munnings Vol. I, An Artist’s Life, London: Museum Press Limited, 1950. This extraordinary and truly unique piece captur...
Wood, Oil
Friedrich Leopold, Prince of Prussia, on Horseback
By Conrad Freyberg
Located in Lexington, KY
Friedrich Leopold, Prince of Prussia (1865–1931) was the son of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia and Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau. Born in Berlin, he was a member of the H...
Oil
Racing
By Randall Davey
Located in Lexington, KY
Randall Davey was an American artist and also an art educator. And his artwork can be found in museums throughout the US. He is known for his portraits, Still Lifes, and his equine p...
Pastel
Mogul, Ryan Moore, Goodwood
Located in Lexington, KY
An established Flat Racing Jockey, Moore mainly rides for Coolmore Stud and has also ridden for Juddmonte, as well as the Royal Family. As of 2024 Moore has ridden more than 200 grou...
Oil
Draft Horse
Located in Lexington, KY
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
Unloading the Customers, Thailand
Located in Lexington, KY
Coates is mostly known for his equine paintings and scenes showing racetracks around the world. Coates also captures moments from his travels in his paintings. Throughout his career ...
Oil
Windmill at Cley, Norfolk
Located in Lexington, KY
Charles Church is becoming one of the most popular sporting and equine painters right now. His work is well sought after and is exhibited regularly. His exhibitions are regularly sol...
Oil
Mares and Foals
Located in Lexington, KY
Larry Wheeler is a prolific sporting artist who specializes in equine and sporting scenes. He gained his formal art education at the university of Maryland, and would later go on to ...
Oil
Woodbine Queen Plates Day
Located in Lexington, KY
The title of the race Queens Plate day has since been changed to Kings Plate day in honor of King Charles III. But the race still holds the same historic and prestigious value as it ...
Oil
Spaniel
Located in Lexington, KY
Predominantly working for private patrons, Dalby is known for his sporting art, landscapes, and dog portraits. His father and teacher David Dalby was also a painter who specialized i...
Oil
Jockeys at Goodwood
By Marcus Hodge
Located in Lexington, KY
Marcus Hodge is known for his equine art and also for his scenes of racehorses. But is more recently experimenting with more abstract designs. Starting out as a portrait painter and ...
Oil
Raiding the Caravan
Located in Lexington, KY
Known for his bird paintings and western scenes Michaelis is most famous for his birds of prey book. Alongside art, he was a well known ornithologist, and had several falcons as his ...
Oil
Rider and Horses, Manipur
By Marcus Hodge
Located in Lexington, KY
Manipur was the original birthplace of polo in India. The game was played with seven players to a side and points were scored by seeing who could knock the ball out of the field of p...
Oil
The Duke of Beccleuchs Going Away From a Find at Chaple Hill
By Michael Lyne
Located in Lexington, KY
The Duke of Buccleuch’s hunt was founded in 1827 and was once a famous event in Scotland but has now since died down because of the fox hunting bans around the area. Now the hunt has...
Gouache
Full Cry
Located in Lexington, KY
Growing up around horses and the equine scene, Davis was born in the Cotswolds and was one of the most skilled horsewomen in her area. After graduating school in Cheltenham she would...
Oil
View of Marseille
Located in Lexington, KY
A city that is made up of rich history from around 20,000 years ago when the Greeks first settled there. Marseille was a bustling trade port and a popular spot for merchants to come ...
Oil
At the Races
By François Gall
Located in Lexington, KY
Gall was a Hungarian-born French painter known for his abstract expressionism and surrealism marked by bold colors, dynamic forms, and a deep sense of human emotion. Gall was educate...
Oil
Prescient
Located in Lexington, KY
Bolam is known for his portraits of Native Americans and wildlife such as elk and deer. His work is deeply rooted with his love for the American West. His paintings pay homage to Wes...
Oil
Boats at Harbour
Located in Lexington, KY
Specializing in abstract portraits and racing scenes, Mangan is also known for painting sailing, and boating scenes in the same figurative manner. Most of his harbor scenes are done ...
Oil
Leicestershire Hunting Morning
Located in Lexington, KY
Living and painting in England, Whitcombe has been familiarized with fox hunting and also painting hunt scenes. This paining is depicting the Quorn Hunt that takes place in Leicester...
Oil
Going out, Goodwood
Located in Lexington, KY
Studying in London and specializing in horse paintings and dealing with watercolors and oils. She has exhibited in London, Tokyo, and Melbourne. She has experience riding as an amate...
Oil
A Left - and Right - at Woodcock
Located in Lexington, KY
Having a father in the Air Force Burgees traveled and lived in many different cities throughout his life such as England, Germany, and Cyprus. And at age 19 he joined the Royal Airfo...
Oil
At the Races
Located in Lexington, KY
Oil on Canvas Mangan has developed a very distinctive figurative portrayal. His works involve unique human forms in a variety of backgrounds. These can be at the racetrack, the train...
Oil
Turtle Creek Cabin
Located in Lexington, KY
Mason has extensive knowledge of hunting, fishing, and the outdoors. This knowledge gives him the ability to be able to depict these wildlife scenes with accuracy. Being raised on a ...
Watercolor, Ink
Draft Horses (set of three)
Located in Lexington, KY
Focusing on painting coaching and driving scenes. Standing mainly paints in watercolors and has chosen that as his medium. Little is known about the artist but it is believed that he...
Watercolor
Going to Post, Chantilly
Located in Lexington, KY
Signed, Oil on Canvas Gridnev, a member of the Pastel Society, Royal institute of Oil Painters, and Federation of British Artists and Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Showcases hi...
Oil
Family Farm
By John Frederick Herring Jr
Located in Lexington, KY
Provenance: Anon. sale, Christie’s, London, 5 June 1998, lot 32 (25,300 Euro), Signed, Oil on Canvas. Son of John Frederick Herring Sr. The Junior Herring painted farm and equestria...
Oil
Aberdeen Angus Bull: Rosemead Jeronny
Located in Lexington, KY
Self taught, Bibby has become one of Englands finest animal sculptors. Selling his first sculpture at age 16, Bibby has made a professional career that has ranged from director for a...
Bronze
Summer Rhapsody
By Diana Tremaine
Located in Lexington, KY
Signed, Oil on Canvas Growing up in New York City and having parents that collected art, Tremaine was exposed to it at a very young age. She was drawn to a more contemporary style an...
Oil
Cock and Hen (Pheasants)
By Ferdinand Pautrot
Located in Lexington, KY
Little is known about this artist but he began exhibiting at the Salon in 1861 and he continued to do so through 1870. His work is mainly based around hunting themes and animal figur...
Bronze
Racing, Epsom and Aintree (a pair)
By George Denholm Armour
Located in Lexington, KY
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...
Watercolor
To the Track
Located in Lexington, KY
Specializing in equine art Arenys Galdon has had his works exhibited in Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Paris, and other major cities. He has also earned medals for top placings in the 19...
Oil
In the Wind
Located in Lexington, KY
Living in a creekside cabin in Bliss, New York, Daly involves the environment around him in almost all of his paintings. He mostly paints landscape pictures and also produces still l...
Oil
Newmarket Heath
By Doris Zinkeisen
Located in Lexington, KY
During the 1920’s and ‘30s, Zinkeisen would share a studio with her sister in London, where she started her commercial career as an artist, theatrical designer, and as a painter. Dur...
Canvas, Oil
Horse Fair at Donegal
Located in Lexington, KY
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...
Oil
The Chester Horse Fair
By Henry Charles Woollett
Located in Lexington, KY
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...
Canvas, Oil
Bellbird (Diptych), 1988 - Pair
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Lexington, KY
This early Hunt Slonem pair is each signed and dated (verso). Sold as a pair, these pieces showcase Slonem's bright, vibrant style with his iconic tropical birds. Unframed dimensio...
Oil
Entering the Stretch
By Peter Howell
Located in Lexington, KY
his work in North America. In 1992 he became associated with the Cross Gate Gallery in Lexington
Oil
Horses at the Start
By Peter Howell
Located in Lexington, KY
as the horses approach the starting gate for the race with their jockeys.
Canvas, Oil
Chasseurs d'Automne
Located in Lexington, KY
subjects. He has exhibited his work in prestigious Paris galleries such as the Cymaise Gallery, before
Paper, Watercolor
Chasse au Sangliers
Located in Lexington, KY
subjects. He has exhibited his work in prestigious Paris galleries such as the Cymaise Gallery, before
Paper, Watercolor
Mares and Foals
Located in Lexington, KY
painting conservator for both the Corcoran Gallery and the Smithsonian Institution in addition to teaching
Canvas, Oil
Mantle at Home
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Lexington, KY
Signed, titled verso Provenance: Hammer Galleries Depicting Mickey Mantle of the Yankees
Oil
The Experienced One, John Reid at Ascot
By Alan Brassington
Located in Lexington, KY
features the #6 horse at Royal Ascot. Provenance: The Park Gallery, London
Watercolor
Epsom
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Lexington, KY
Signed, inscribed, dated ’63 Provenance: Hammer Galleries, New York “But internationally there
Oil
The Double Bank, Punchestown
Located in Lexington, KY
is slightly trickier, with a downhill section after the winning post while the cross-country course
Oil
Cattle in a Landscape
By Eyvind Earle
Located in Lexington, KY
This oil on board painting by Eyvind Earle is signed, dated 7-10-98. Earle is a noted American animator as well as a designer, painter, and illustrator. His parents had separated by...
Oil
Original Bull Elephant
By Sid Maurer
Located in Lexington, KY
The long career of Sid Maurer in the world of Art and Music began at the age of seventeen when he was hired as assistant art director at Columbia Records in New York City, where he s...
Acrylic, Wood Panel, Digital
Original Leopard
By Sid Maurer
Located in Lexington, KY
The long career of Sid Maurer in the world of Art and Music began at the age of seventeen when he was hired as assistant art director at Columbia Records in New York City, where he s...
Acrylic, Wood Panel, Digital Pigment
Early Morning, Santa Anita
By Peter Howell
Located in Lexington, KY
Howell captures the excitement and prestige of the racing world in his skilled paintings. Howell did not intend to focus primarily on individual portraits of the horses and jockeys, ...
Canvas, Oil
Back Stretch, Saratoga
By Peter Howell
Located in Lexington, KY
Howell captures the excitement and prestige of the racing world in his skilled paintings. Howell did not intend to focus primarily on individual portraits of the horses and jockeys, ...
Canvas, Oil
The Weir
Located in Lexington, KY
June Berry's art is about life, the life of real people, and it is basically optimistic and joyful, even when contemplative. Life transformed into art: an art based on observati...
Canvas, Oil
Pasture Sketch
Located in Lexington, KY
Here, Jean Bernard Lalanne shows two horses as they run and play in their countryside pasture in France.
Oil, Board
Constitution
Located in Lexington, KY
Based near Louisville, KY, Robertson is known for his modern take on otherwise traditional subjects. His use of size, bold compositions, colors, and a palette knife adds life to his ...
Canvas, Oil
Soldado
By Ashley Collins
Located in Lexington, KY
One of Collins “Furious Angel” grouping of works that sold out their first three shows, Soldado literally means “Soldier.” Yet for Collins, the definition is expanded... for each of ...
Wire
Horses at the Start II
By Peter Howell
Located in Lexington, KY
Peter Howell is a British artist who specializes in racing and steeplechase scenes. Here he shows racehorses as the horses head to the start of a European race with their jockeys.
Canvas, Oil
Steeplechase
By Peter Howell
Located in Lexington, KY
Peter Howell is a British artist who specializes in racing and steeplechase scenes. Here he shows horses racing in a European steeplechase with their jockeys.
Canvas, Oil
Ducks and Ducklings
By John Frederick Herring Sr.
Located in Lexington, KY
John Frederick Herring Sr. specialized in depicting 19th Century farm life. Here, he shows ducks, ducklings, and pigeons in their barn, eating.
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Stableyard
By John Frederick Herring Jr
Located in Lexington, KY
John Frederick Herring Jr. painted in the same time and style as his father. This stableyard shows horses, cattle, and pigs coexisting as they would've on a 19th Century farm.
Canvas, Oil
Summer Stream
Located in Lexington, KY
Now a resident of Lexington, KY, this Polish-born artist received his master’s degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Arabian horses were his first subjects, and he was quic...
Canvas, Oil
Two Horse, Jockey Up
By Alan Brassington
Located in Lexington, KY
Alan Brassington is an Irish painter who specializes in oil paint, but has an affinity for watercolors and drawings as well. He is well known in the UK for his love of racehorses as ...
Watercolor
Fairyhouse, Ireland
By Alan Brassington
Located in Lexington, KY
Alan Brassington is an Irish painter who specializes in oil paint, but has an affinity for watercolors and drawings as well. He is well known in the UK for his love of racehorses as ...
Watercolor
In the Stretch
By Quang Ho
Located in Lexington, KY
“The real essence of painting is the dialogue between shapes, tones, colors, textures, edges, and line. Everything else follows—including light, form, concepts, personal beliefs, and...
Canvas, Oil
Study for ‘To the Scales’ featuring two jockeys
By Henry Koehler
Located in Lexington, KY
Henry Koehler's racing scenes always deliver slices of equestrian life. He shows moments of a race that truly encompass the character of the horses and their movement. His style and ...
Charcoal
Winner's Parade
Located in Lexington, KY
Heather St. Clair Davis was born and raised in England, but moved to a farm in Vermont in her adulthood. A horsewoman all her life, Davis focused on the equines that surrounded her f...
Canvas, Oil
Grey Marwari Mare, Pushkar
By Marcus Hodge
Located in Lexington, KY
Contemporary artist, Hodge is known for his sculptural use of paint. His works reveal the process of being painted. Hodge’s works center around horses, some of his pieces giving way ...
Canvas, Oil
Lillies
Located in Lexington, KY
Now a resident of Lexington, KY, this Polish-born artist received his master’s degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Arabian horses were his first subjects, and he was quic...
Paper, Oil Pastel
Hunting Vignettes
By Boris Riab
Located in Lexington, KY
Boris Riab was a Russian artist with a love for sporting dogs and bird hunting. His drawings and watercolors show attention to detail and a clean sharpness to his figures. He dedicat...
Paper, Watercolor
Study for Royal Ascot Procession
Located in Lexington, KY
Valeriy Gridnev is a Russian artist with a particular affinity for sketches and drawings. She is drawn to subjects of grace, be they ballerinas or horses, and strives to capture the ...
Paper, Oil Pastel
Steeplechasers Covering Ground
By Henry Koehler
Located in Lexington, KY
Henry Koehler's racing scenes always deliver slices of equestrian life. He shows moments of a race that truly encompass the character of the horses and their movement. His style and ...
Canvas, Oil
Abraham’s Peace Plan
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Lexington, KY
Blue, Green, and White Doves on silver metallic surface with scoring by Hunt Slonem.
Oil
Four in Hand Team
By Albert Clark
Located in Lexington, KY
Signed lower right corner. Believed to be in original frame.
Oil
Bastille Day
By Claude Grosperrin
Located in Lexington, KY
Unframed large oil painting by the sought after French Impressionist artist, Claude Grosperrin. Depicts the French Celebration of Bastille Day.
Oil
Riding the Storm
By Jo Taylor
Located in Lexington, KY
Large scale, Mixed Media, Equine or Horse painting
Oil Pastel, Oil, Watercolor
Over the Hedge
Located in Lexington, KY
20th Century European Equestrian Painting featuring Bay Steeplechase Horse.
Oil
Great Dane
By Carl Reichert
Located in Lexington, KY
Signed J Hartung- Reichert often used as alias Framed size: 9 1/4” x 10 2/3”
Oil
A Fall Over the Fence & Clearing the Creek (a pair)
Located in Lexington, KY
Gilbert Scott Wright was an English Equestrian painter. Like his older brother George Wright, he painted fox hunting and coaching scenes, as well as horse portraits. Wright was one o...
Oil
The Refusal
By Lionel Edwards
Located in Lexington, KY
Signed and Dated ’61, Indistinctly inscribed under mount. Lionel Edwards is known for his Horse and Equestrian watercolors, notably Fox Hunting.
Watercolor
On Scent
By George Wright
Located in Lexington, KY
Framed size: 32.5” x 34.5” George Wright was a painter in oils whose subjects were mainly drawn from hunting, with which he was familiar, being a fox-hunter himself, coaching and ot...
Oil
Shooting
By James Barenger
Located in Lexington, KY
Framed size: 28” x 35” Beginning as a landscape artist, Barenger went on to specialise in painting horses, dogs and other animals, and hunting scenes. In 1807, at the age of 28, he ...
Oil
Equus III
Located in Lexington, KY
Framed size: 37” x 25” Michael J Austin is known for his bold and expressive figurative style, capturing the dynamism and machismo of the animals he depicts. Using a limited palette...
Oil
The State Coach Study I
Located in Lexington, KY
John Leigh-Pemberton was a British illustrator who was commissioned in the 1950s to paint the Royal Coaches, housed at the Royal Mews, in the horse stables of Buckingham Palace. The...
Oil
Les Caleches
Located in Lexington, KY
19th Century French Equestrian piece depicting Coaching and Horses. Monogram M lower Right Gouache, watercolor and charcoal on paper laid down on canvas, 31" x 67"
Charcoal, Pastel, Watercolor
Chickens (a pair)
By William Baptiste Baird
Located in Lexington, KY
William Baptiste Baird was an American painter who was born in 1847. He specialized in painting farm animals and wildlife.
Oil
Three Spaniels and a Goose
By Paul Jones b.1856
Located in Lexington, KY
Paul Jones was a British Sporting artist that mostly painted Game and hunting dogs. He was an enthusiastic terrier man, depicting them rabbiting or chasing cats and rats.
Oil
The Buggy Driver
Located in Lexington, KY
19th Century American Equestrian painting of Buggy with Bay Horse.
Oil
Trotting By the Sea
Located in Lexington, KY
Thomas B. Worth (1834 - 1917) was active/lived in New York. Thomas Worth is known for Equestrian genre illustration-horse racing. An illustrator, Thomas Worth was one of the best-kno...
Oil
The Day’s Game
Located in Lexington, KY
19th Century European hunting painting.
Oil
George Mure of Herringswell
Located in Lexington, KY
Oil on canvas. Provenance: Miss Mure of Perceton; Anonymous Sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 9 June 1989, lot 97 Exhibited: Rountree Tryon, 2015 Sporting Exhibition Literature: J.N.P. W...
Oil
Sold
H 24 in W 34 in D 1 in
Equestrian Portrait, Horse Racing, Sporting Oil Painting, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by the Tryon Gallery in London and the Cross Gate Gallery. Condition report: The painting and
Oil
Horse Portrait
By Valerie Hinz
Located in Soquel, CA
the 2009 and 2011 Calgary Stampede Western Art Showcase. Galleries displaying her work: Cross Gate
Canvas, Oil
The Belvoir, Checked
By Henry Koehler
Located in Lexington, KY
Established in 1750 on the 15,000 acre Belvoir Estate in Leicestershire, England. The Belvoir Hunt, also known as the “Duke of Rutlands Hounds”, has a very long and rich history. The...
Oil
The Watering Place
By John Frederick Herring Sr.
Located in Lexington, KY
Herring was a coach driver on the Doncaster-London route by trade when he began painting. His paintings so impressed the wealthy Frank Hawkesworth in 1818 that he was offered a year’...
Oil
Keeneland Paddock
By Peter Howell
Located in Lexington, KY
his work in North America. In 1992 he became associated with the Cross Gate Gallery in Lexington
Canvas, Oil
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