Born near Lausanne, Switzerland in 1808, Edward Troye became one of the first United States artists to specialize in animal subjects. He was the foremost mid-19th century painter of horses, creating... Read full biography
Born near Lausanne, Switzerland in 1808, Edward Troye became one of the first United States artists to specialize in animal subjects. He was the foremost mid-19th century painter of horses, creating nearly 360 paintings and numerous drawings. He also painted portraits of leading preachers of the... Read full biography
Born near Lausanne, Switzerland in 1808, Edward Troye became one of the first United States artists to specialize in animal subjects. He was the foremost mid-19th century painter of horses, creating nearly 360 paintings and numerous drawings. He also painted portraits of leading preachers of the day including Reverend Joseph Stiles. Other subjects were prize livestock and equestrian figure portraits such as two equestrian portraits of General Winfield Scott", the Civil War General. One of the... Read full biography
Born near Lausanne, Switzerland in 1808, Edward Troye became one of the first United States artists to specialize in animal subjects. He was the foremost mid-19th century painter of horses, creating nearly 360 paintings and numerous drawings. He also painted portraits of leading preachers of the day including Reverend Joseph Stiles. Other subjects were prize livestock and equestrian figure portraits such as two equestrian portraits of General Winfield Scott", the Civil War General. One of the portraits, commissioned by the Virginia legislature before the outbreak of the Civil Was, was hung just before the war by the artist on the east staircase of the House of Representatives with the hope that someone would pay his price of $6,000.... Read full biography
Born near Lausanne, Switzerland in 1808, Edward Troye became one of the first United States artists to specialize in animal subjects. He was the foremost mid-19th century painter of horses, creating nearly 360 paintings and numerous drawings. He also painted portraits of leading preachers of the day including Reverend Joseph Stiles. Other subjects were prize livestock and equestrian figure portraits such as two equestrian portraits of General Winfield Scott", the Civil War General. One of the portraits, commissioned by the Virginia legislature before the outbreak of the Civil Was, was hung just before the war by the artist on the east staircase of the House of Representatives with the hope that someone would pay his price of $6,000. However, the start of the War doomed that potential sale. Troye, described as being deeply religious and having a... Read full biography
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About Edward Troye: Books
Books & Publications (44)
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Black and White: Kentucky Prints and Printmakers from the Collection of Warren and Julie Payne
2020
Payne, Warren
136 pages
Kentucky The Master Painters
2008
Pennington, Estill Curtis
0 pages (color)
Animal and Sporting Art in America
2008
Reuter Jr., Turner (The National Sporting Library, Middleburg, Virginia)
880 pages (color)
Edward Troye: Painter of Thoroughbred Stories
2007
Lacer, Genevieve Baird
250 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal
2003
Rasmussen, William M.S.; Robert S. Tilton
252 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Landscape of Belief Encountering the Holy Land in 19th Cent American Art
1996
Davis, John
264 pages (color)
Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection
1996
Delehanty, Randolph
292 pages (color)
The Art of the Horse
1995
Fairley, John
192 pages (color)
A Nation's Pride Art in the White House
1992
Kloss, William (et al)
375 pages (color)
American Paintings and Sculpture Sterling & Francine Clark Institute
1990
Conrads, Martha C
219 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Facing History The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
McElroy, Guy C
190 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918
1987
Mahe, John A. II; Rosanne McCaffrey (Editors)
464 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
The Art of the Old South: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and the Products of Craftsmen
1983
Poesch, Jessie
384 pages (color)
Painting in the South: 1564-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Virginia Museum, Richmond
362 pages (color)
Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist
1983
Wright, R Lewis
200 pages
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
The Race Horses of America 1832-1872, Portraits & Other Paintings
1981
Mackey-Smith, Alexander
458 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
An American Bestiary
1979
Haverstock, Mary Sayre
248 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900
1978
Williams, Herman Warner Jr
248 pages (color)
Three Kentucky Artists---Hart, Price, Troye (A Kentucky Bicentennial Book)
1975
Coleman, John Winston
76 pages
American Self Portraits 1670-1973 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Van Devanter, Ann, et al
245 pages (color)
American Masters, 18th and 19th Centuries Kennedy Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Wunderlich, Rudolf G; Lawrence A. Fleischman
64 pages (color)
American Masters 18th to 20th Centuries (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Kennedy Galleries
48 pages
Painting in America From 1502 to the Present
1965
Richardson, Edgar P
456 pages (color)
Edward Troye, Animal and Portrait Painter
1958
Coleman, J. Winston
33 pages (color)
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art Union
1953
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett
0 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
American Romantic Painting
1944
Richardson, Edgar P
286 pages
Life in America Exhibition Paintings/New York World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Metropolitan Museum of Art
230 pages
Art and Artists of the Capitol of the United States of America
1927
Fairman, Charles E
0 pages
The Sporting Library of the Late George B. Raymond of Morristown, N.J. (With series of paintings of famous race horses by Henry Stull and Edward Troye)