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Lot Essay
Eastern horses had been imported to England since the Middle Ages. However, the importation of three sires in particular in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, The Byerley Turk (1683); The Darley Arabian (1703); and The Godolphin Arabian (1730), as gifts from the Turkish rulers of the Ottoman Empire to European heads of state, prompted a revolution in horse breeding.
A celebrated sporting artist, Henry Bernard Chalon was the son of Jan Chalon, a Dutch musician and engraver from Amsterdam (1749-1795), and 'Jackey' Barnard, the daughter of Sir John Barnard, a financier, London merchant, Lord Mayor and Member of Parliament (1722-1761). He married a sister of the artist James Ward, R.A. (1769-1859), and had a daughter, Maria A. Chalon, a miniaturist.
Chalon studied at the Royal Academy Schools and had considerable success as a sporting and animal painter. He exhibited almost two hundred pictures at the Royal Academy, had nineteen plates published in The Sporting Magazine, and also published Chalon's book of animals and birds of every description and Studies from Nature (1804). He was appointed animal painter to the Duchess of York, to the Prince Regent (later King George IV) and King William IV. This influential patronage secured him employment from several other prominent figures, including the Dukes of Beaufort and Devonshire, Earl Grosvenor, Lord Raby and Colonel Thornton.
A celebrated sporting artist, Henry Bernard Chalon was the son of Jan Chalon, a Dutch musician and engraver from Amsterdam (1749-1795), and 'Jackey' Barnard, the daughter of Sir John Barnard, a financier, London merchant, Lord Mayor and Member of Parliament (1722-1761). He married a sister of the artist James Ward, R.A. (1769-1859), and had a daughter, Maria A. Chalon, a miniaturist.
Chalon studied at the Royal Academy Schools and had considerable success as a sporting and animal painter. He exhibited almost two hundred pictures at the Royal Academy, had nineteen plates published in The Sporting Magazine, and also published Chalon's book of animals and birds of every description and Studies from Nature (1804). He was appointed animal painter to the Duchess of York, to the Prince Regent (later King George IV) and King William IV. This influential patronage secured him employment from several other prominent figures, including the Dukes of Beaufort and Devonshire, Earl Grosvenor, Lord Raby and Colonel Thornton.