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National Society of Colonial
Dames of
America in Tennessee
Belle Meade Plantation |
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Portrait
#1152 |
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| Subject/Title: |
General Harding | |
| Artist: | Treviranus, Stewart after Henry Stull | |
| Date Created: | 1956 | |
| Owner/Location: | Belle Meade Plantation 5025 Harding Road Nashville, TN 37205 website |
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| Frame Dimensions: | 22 x 30 | |
| Image Dimensions: | 16 x 24 | |
| Date Documented: | 25 September 2007 | |
| Materials/Media: | Oil on Canvas | |
| Condition: | Good | |
| Description: | General Harding is a single chestnut stallion with star, stripe, snip and a right front sock, standing in left profile in a field. The horse is mounted by a jockey wearing blue and gold striped silks; the horse also has a blue and gold striped brow band. The sky is gray, and the foreground is pale green with trees in the background off to the right. |
| History of Work: | Frame is a giltwood and gesso molding with brass horseshoe attached to upper molding and inscribed, “Jackson Stakes/Alexander Stakes/Runnymede Stakes/Herald-Stakes/Sensation Stakes/Criterion Stakes/Flash Stakes/Nursery Stakes/Calumet Stakes.” The painting of General Harding is a copy of a Henry Stull original by Stewart Treviranus in 1956. The original was done in 1883. |
| Notes: | Location: East Side Hall |