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1808 Lausanne, Switzerland - 1874 Georgetown, Kentucky. Known for: Racehorses, animal portraits, figures and landscape painting.
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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Keywords (30)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Magazine Illustration
Art Media
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Horse Portrait
- •Horses: Equestrian Genre, in Landscape and/or Portraits
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Oriental Influence
- •Orientalism, Orientalist
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Charleston, South Carolina Pre 1940
- •England, Great Britain Before 1900, London
- •Jamaica
- •New Orleans Before 1940
- •Philadelphia Before 1900
- •Virginia Before 1900
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •US Capitol Building, Washington DC
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Genre Specialty
- •Horse Subject Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
- •French
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts