- Edward Troye
Edward Troye, French painter of American blood horses (
b. 1808 nearGeneva, Switzerland - diedJuly 25 ,1874 inGeorgetown, Kentucky ), was born to Jean Baptiste de Troy, noted artist of the painting "The Plague of Marseilles" hung in theLouvre ,Paris ,France . At age 20 he emigrated to theWest Indies of theNew World and later on toPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania where he was an employed artist of "Sartain's Magazine". He married in 1839.Troye's best works, between the years 1835 and 1874 (prior to the birth of photography), are true-to-life delineations of historical American
Great Plains horses. He paintedSouthern United States pre-American Civil War thoroughbred s, particularly for an Alexander family ofGeorgetown, Kentucky (with whom he spent half of his life) andAlexander Keene Richards (1827-1881). Troye taught French and drawing atSpring Hill College , 1849-1855.Later he and Richards traveled to the
Holy Land where he painted horses,Damascus, Syria cattle, theDead Sea and the bazaar of Damascus while Richards bought Arabian horses. Bethany College,West Virginia retains copies of some of these paintings.Little was known of Troye's work in the eastern United States until 1912. Since then, more than 300 of his paintings have been found, of which three-fourth's have been photographed since 1912. In addition, he is the author of "The Race Horses of America (1867)". At his death, he was survived by a daughter. Troye is buried in Georgetown Cemetery.
Notable Horse Paintings
*American Eclipse and Sir Henry
*Boston and his son, Lexington
*Lecomte
*Glencoe
*Revenue
*Bertrand
*Richard Singleton
*Reality
*Black Maria
*Leviathan
*Wagner
*Ophelia - dam of Gray EagleReferences
Dumas Malone, ed. "Dictionary of American Biography". vol. X, part 1. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY. 1964.
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