Possibly George Percy Jacomb-Hood RBA, Arabian Horseman –1920s pen & ink drawing

Possibly George Percy Jacomb-Hood RBA Arabian Horseman

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An original 1920s pen & ink drawing, Possibly George Percy Jacomb-Hood RBA, Arabian Horseman.

An accomplished ink illustration. Further portrait sketches on the verso indicate a date of around the 1920s.

This drawing is possibly by the artist George Percy Jacomb-Hood (1857–1929), who regularly produced illustrations for The Graphic. Another drawing in the collection from which this drawing derives also has the attribution of Jacmob-Hood. (see JZ-180).

Jacomb-Hood was educated at Tonbridge School and the Slade School of Fine Art as well as studying while touring abroad in Paris and Madrid. He was a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, the Savile Club, was Honorary Treasurer of the Chelsea Arts Club, member of the New English Art Club and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. He was a friend of Whistler and a horse-riding companion of Sargent (his neighbour in Tite Street), and he also developed a fine reputation as a portrait painter.

Provenance: William Drummond (Covent Garden Gallery, London).

Ink with graphite. On laid paper.

Provenance: William Drummond (Covent Garden Gallery, London).

Equestrian Collection: Loraine-Smith & Charles Cooper Henderson

This work is one of a fascinating collection of equestrian pictures we have for sale connected with two highly regarded horse painters: Charles Loraine-Smith (1751–1835), a keen horseman known for his early hunting and sporting scenes; and Charles Cooper Henderson (1803–1877), the preeminent painter of Victorian horses and coaches. Both artists were instrumental in developing the genre of horse painting, and achieved fame and popularity through print reproductions after their work. At a time when animal painting was seen as a ‘lower’ form of art, these artists were pioneering in establishing the respectability and status of the genre.

The collection includes signed works by both these artists, as well a number of interesting works by other members of the Loraine-Smith family: Charles’s son, Reverend Loraine Loraine-Smith (1784–1857), and daughter-in-law, Isabella—who were both keen horse-riders, and produced personal studies of horses and hunting subjects under Charles’s influence.

This collection also includes horse pictures by other notable names, such as Jules Léon Montigny, Henry Thomas Alken, Anthony Devis and Frank L. Emanuel.

The story behind why these equestrian pictures have come together is a mystery, but it is possible that the collection was at one time owned by Charles Cooper Henderson. Our collection includes a watercolour by William James Müller—and, interestingly, Charles’s brother, the distinguished art collector John Henderson, was an avid collector of Müller’s works. Together, these pictures, spanning the late 18th into the early 19th century, show the ever increasing British obsession with all things equine.