From Troyon’s farm animals going to market, through Queen Victoria’s favourite artist, African elephants in the wild, to monkeys, and cattle in the sunshine.
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Paintings of autumn from the early 20th century, by Jakub Schikaneder to Grant Wood.
First shown at the Royal Academy when only 10, this true genius had a colourful but tragically short life.
An American Master in his own right, his paintings were on a par with those of Chase, and he was a successful teacher too.
The American painter of farm animals, particularly oxen, followed in the brushstrokes of Constant Troyon, except that he has now been forgotten.
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