About Gustav Muss-Arnolt

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Guss Muss Arnolt, Gustave Muss Arnolt
  • Biography

    Excerpt from Animal and Sporting Artists in America by F. Turner Reuter, Jr. © 2008:

    Muss-Arnolt was born in Tuckahoe, NY, in 1858. He spent most of his professional life in New York City and Tuckahoe, although little is known of his professional training. He was a noted painter of sporting and gun dogs, although he executed compositions of various other canine breeds. He also painted waterfowl, upland game and other animal subjects including horses.

    A noted example of his equestrian work was his 1885 foxhunting portrait The Meadow Brook Hounds Meet at the Old Westbury Pond on Long Island, NY commissioned by Augustus Belmont, Jr., M.F.H. The composition includes master huntsman and staff, a pack of fiftee...

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