Edward Troye

Gosden Head, New York, 1932, plate 3, illustrated.

Knoedler Gallery, New York, 1948, no. 13, p. 54.

John Hervey, Racing in America, 1665-1865, vol. I, New York 1944, p. 266, illustrated.

Mackay-Smith Alexander et al. The Race Horses of America 1832-1872: Portraits and Other Paintings by Edward Troye. National Museum of Racing 1981, pp. 22, 23, illustrated, 24, 413, ASB 345. 

Winterthur Museum and Gardens, Charleston's Golden Age of Racing, 1982, illustrated.

National Sporting Library & Museum, Coming Home Series: Edward Troye (1808-1974), Virginia, 2014, pl. 10, pp. 68-69, illustrated, 135.

New York, The Jockey Club, 1907

New York, Knoedler Art Galleries, Highlights of the turf : exhibition : paintings, bronzes, trophies, and books for the benefit of the New York Infirmary building fund, 20 April - 1 May 1948, no. 13

Winterthur, Delaware, Winterthur Museum and Gardens, Charleston's Golden Age of Racing, May 1982

Virginia, National Sporting Library & Museum, Coming Home Series: Edward Troye (1808-1974), 26 October 2014 - March 29, 2015

This is one of several portraits Troye painted of Henry, one of the two most famous horses in North America. Signed and dated May 1834, it is quite similar to an earlier portrait of Henry that Troye painted in 1832, with the farmhouse and stables of John Snedeker in the background at right and center and the grandstand of the Union Course at left.

On May 27, 1823, the thoroughbreds American Eclipse and Henry met in three four-mile races at Union Course for the first intersectional match-up, pitting the North against the South. An estimated sixty-thousand people attended the race, including Andrew Jackson, then governor of Florida, Daniel Tompkins, the Vice-President of the United States, and Aaron Burr, who famously shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel some 19 years earlier.