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Anglo-Flemish School.
Oil painting on canvas, Six of the Duke of Newcastles Manège Horses, Anglo-Flemish School, circa 1665 to 1675. It was previously ascribed to 'probably A. Sijmons (fl.1670)' on the basis of a signed painting at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. On a plain by a river, six horses are paraded by six grooms. They are disposed in a pattern of two lines each of three horses, all facing left. Top left, a black horse led by a black groom with short cropped hair, wearing a silk tunic tied at the waist with a striped silk sash, he holds the reins of the horse loosely in his right hand and tightly in his left hand, at just below the bit; the groom is walking to the left. The top-centre white groom stands facing, looking up at the head of his white horse, he has shoulder-length natural hair, he is dressed in a smock-like tunic, buttoned down the front, white cravat tied with a black ribbon, white shirt billowing out at the end of the sleeves, breeches showing under his tunic, stockings and shoes. He holds the reins loosely in his right hand and holds them just below the muzzle of the horse, in his left hand. The horse has a frizzed mane and long frizzed tail. The top-right white groom walks forward to the left, looking back at his black horse, which has white fetlocks on its left and back right legs. He is leading the horse with the reins held loosely in his right and left hands. He has shoulder-length, natural wavy hair, and is wearing a tunic and a white cravat. His tunic is buttoned down the front, the last few buttons undone, with breeches, stockings and shoes. The bottom-left black groom, with close-cropped hair, is standing facing, legs apart, looking up at his white horse which has a very long frizzed mane and tail. The groom is dressed in a tunic, white shirt collar showing, stockings and knee-high boots. He holds the horses reins just below the bit. The bottom-centre white groom is standing facing, legs slightly apart, looking at his black horse, his natural hair falling in shoulder-length ringlets. He is dressed in a short jacket with three-quarter length sleeves, his white shirt has a plain white falling collar, and billows out at his wrists and waist; he wears breeches with an elaborate bow at the waist, white stockings falling over his garters, and shoes tied with bows. The horse has two white fetlocks on his rear legs, with a long, almost ground-length, tail. He holds the reins loosely in his right hand and at the bit with his left. The bottom-right black groom is also dressed in the same type of silk tunic worn by the other two black grooms, he strides forward with his left foot, and looks to the left. He leads a dappled horse, and holds the reins looped in his right hand under the horses mouth, his left hand behind the horses neck. The horse has a long frizzed tail. The setting is a clearing in front of a river, with a few trees in the background, with what appears to be a fortified house in the centre distance, under a large expanse of sky. The costumes of the grooms appear to date from the late 1650s to the 1670s.
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire (Accredited Museum)
Photo credit
National Trust Photographic Library / Bridgeman Images