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A brown and white horse with a saddle beside it

Oil Painting
1675-1685 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A brown and white skewbald horse standing in the foreground against a backdrop of dark grey clouds. On the ground beside the horse is a saddle.


Object details

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This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Painting
  • Frame
TitleA brown and white horse with a saddle beside it (generic title)
Materials and techniques
oil on oak panel
Brief description
Oil painting by Abraham van Calraet depicting a horse and saddle. Dutch School, 1675-1685.
Physical description
A brown and white skewbald horse standing in the foreground against a backdrop of dark grey clouds. On the ground beside the horse is a saddle.
Dimensions
  • Height: 34.2cm
  • Width: 44.4cm
Object history
Bequeathed by Rev. Chauncey Hare Townshend, 1868.
Ref : Parkinson, Ronald, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860. Victoria & Albert Museum, HMSO, London, 1990. p.xix.

'Chauncy Hare Townshend (1798-1868) was born into a wealthy family, only son of Henry Hare Townsend of Busbridge Hall, Godalming, Surrey. Educated at Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA 1821). Succeeded to the family estates 1827, when he added 'h' to the Townsend name. He had taken holy orders, but while he always referred to himself as 'Rev.' on the title pages of his books, he never practised his vocation... . Very much a dilettante in the eighteenth-century sense, he moved in the highest social and literary circles; a great friend of Charles Dickens (he was the dedicatee of Great Expectations) with whom he shared a fascination of mesmerism... Bulwer Lytton described his life's 'Beau-deal of happiness' as 'elegant rest, travel, lots of money - and he is always ill and melancholy'. Of the many watercolours and British and continental oil paintings he bequeathed to the V&A, the majority are landscapes. He is the first identifiable British collector of early photographs apart from the Prince Consort, particularly landscape photography, and also collected gems and geological specimens.'
Collection
Accession number
1374-1869

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Record createdApril 12, 2011
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