American Saddlebred Museum
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Lexington, KY 40511
Lexington, KY 40511
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Museums page for Edward Troye ((1808 - 1874)), known for Racehorses, animal portraits, figures and landscape painting. Showing 11 museum collections and exhibitions.
Edward Troye MUSEUMS
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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About Edward Troye: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (11)
All MuseumsMobile Museum of Art
4850 Museum Drive, Langan Park
P.O. Box 8426
Mobile, AL 36608Musée du Louvre
F-75058 Paris Cedex 01
Paris, FranceNational Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
191 Union Avenue
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866New-York Historical Society
2 West 77th Street At Central Park
New York City, NY 10024Pebble Hill Plantation Museum
1251 US Highway 319 South
Thomasville, GA 31799The Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame
240 Main Street
Goshen, NY 10924The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
225 South Street
7th Floor
Williamstown, MA 01267Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
200 North Boulevard
Richmond, VA 23220-4007White House Historical Association (WHHA)
740 Jackson Place NW,
Washington, DC 20006Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Box 208271
New Haven, CT 06520-8271