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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

Roxanna and Her Colt Blarney Stone by Rhynodyne

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October 25, 02:07 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

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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

1808 - 1874

Roxanna and Her Colt Blarney Stone by Rhynodyne

signed and dated E. Troye / July 1866 and 1867 (lower left)

oil on canvas

canvas: 28 by 36 1/4 in.; 71.1 by 92 cm

framed: 40 1/2 by 50 1/2 in.; 102.8 by 128.2 cm

Commissioned by Henry Price McGrath, Kentucky
Keene Richards, Kentucky
Major Barak G. Thomas, Kentucky
Acquired by The Jockey Club, New York, 1907

Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Sport in American Art, 1944, no. 92, p. 20.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Sport and the horse, catalogue of the exhibition of paintings assembled at the museum in Richmond from April 1 through May 15, 1960, no. 65, p. 82, plate IV, illustrated.
Alexander Mackay-Smith, The Race Horses of America, 1832-1872, Portraits and Other Paintings by Edward Troye, 1981, pp. 225, 280, illustrated, 289, 309, 375, 381, 386, 431.
Genevieve Baird Lacer, Edward Troye: Painter of Thoroughbred Stores. Prospect, Kentucky: Harmony House Publishers, 2006, p. 213.
National Sporting Library & Museum, Coming Home Series: Edward Troye (1808-1974), Virginia, 2014, pl. 34, pp. 45, 116-117, illustrated, 139.
Speed Art Museum, Tales from the Turf: the Kentucky Horse, 1825-1950, 2019.

New York, The Jockey Club, 1907

Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Sport in American Art, 10 October - 10 December 1944, no. 92

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Sport of the Horse, 1 April - 15 May 1960, no. 65

Georgetown, Kentucky, Georgetown & Scott Country Museum, Edward Troye, 13 July - 31 August, 2003

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

Louisville, Kentucky, Speed Art Museum, Tales from the Turf: the Kentucky Horse, 1825-1950, 15 November 2019 - 1 March 2020, cat. 49

Commissioned by Henry Price McGrath, Troye first painted Roxana in 1866 and then, a year later, added her colt foal Blarney Stone. This tender double-portrait is signed and dated 1866 and 1867 to acknowledge the separate sittings.