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Property from the collection of The Jockey Club (US) for the benefit of initiatives in support of the Thoroughbred industry

Edward Troye

American Eclipse in a Landscape

Lot Closed

October 25, 02:04 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the collection of The Jockey Club (US) for the benefit of initiatives in support of the Thoroughbred industry

Edward Troye

American

1808 - 1874

American Eclipse in a Landscape

signed and dated E. Troye./ 1834 (lower right)

oil on canvas

canvas: 25 1/5 by 30 in.; 64 by 76.5 cm

framed: 33/14 by 38 1/5 in.; 84.5 by 97 cm

Major Barak G. Thomas
Acquired by The Jockey Club, 1907

"Edward Troye, sporting artist," The Magazine Antiques, vol. CV, no. 4 (April 1974), p. 807.

John Hervey, Racing in America, 1665-1865, vol. I, 1944, p. 272.

Alexander Mackay-Smith, The Race Horses of America 1832-1872 Portraits and Other Paintings by Edward Troye. New York: The National Museum of Racing, 1981, pp. 22, 24, 42, 366, 377, 378, 414.

National Sporting Library & Museum, Coming Home Series: Edward Troye (1808-1974), Virginia, 2014, pl. 9, pp. 66-67, illustrated, 135.

Speed Art Museum, Tales from the Turf: the Kentucky Horse, 1825-1950, 2019, cat. 42, p. 152.

Troye painted this portrait of the legendary racehorse American Eclipse, foaled by Duroc out of Miller's Damsel, just over a decade after a legendary match up between American Eclipse, representing the North, and Henry, representing the South, in a race at the Union Race Course on Long Island in May 1823.