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8. Juni 2022 · In her new historic novel, Brooks reimagines the life of the itinerant artist Thomas J. Scott, who rendered the distinguished race horse in the oil painting, Portrait of Lexington, ca. 1857, a...
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Luce Center Label. The famous racehorse Lexington was born in Kentucky in 1850 and went on to sire more winning horses than any other American thoroughbred before or since. Thomas J. Scott painted this image while living in Kentucky in the 1850s, when Lexington was at his peak. In an article for Turf, Field and Farm, Scott described the ...
The famous racehorse Lexington was born in Kentucky in 1850 and went on to sire more winning horses than any other American thoroughbred before or since. Thomas J. Scott painted this image while living in Kentucky in the 1850s, when Lexington was at his peak. In an article for Turf, Field and Farm, Scott described the stallion's impressive ...
The Headley-Whitney Museum, also a Smithsonian Affiliate, has borrowed a portrait of Lexington, painted by Pennsylvania artist Thomas J. Scott, from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. “Lexington was painted from life from the Civil War period on,” said Eleanor Harvey, chief curator at the American Art Museum. “Our painting is unusual in that it shows him in his prime, when he was the ...
Lexington (March 17, 1850 – July 1, 1875) was a United States Thoroughbred race horse who won six of his seven race starts. Perhaps his greatest fame, however, came as the most successful sire of the second half of the nineteenth century; he was the leading sire in North America 16 times, and broodmare sire of many notable racehorses.
16. Apr. 2020 · April 16th, 2020 by J. Keeler Johnson. Lexington proved even greater as a stallion than he was as a racehorse. (Painting by T.J. Scott/Keeneland Association) The city of Lexington, Ky., has long been considered the center of Thoroughbred breeding in the United States.
Lexington's dam was Dr. Warfield's homebred mare Alice Carneal, named for one of his daughters-in-law, the wife of his son Thomas. The mare was sired by the imported horse Sarpedon, a good runner in England including a win in the Stockbridge Gold Cup and second in the 2,000 Gineas. He was brought to stand initially in Virginia in 1834, then ...
