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National Society of Colonial
Dames of
America in Tennessee
Belle Meade Plantation |
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Portrait
#1154 |
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| Subject/Title: |
Harry Basset | |
| Artist: | Treviranus, Stewart copied after Thomas S. Scott’s original | |
| Date Created: | 1956 | |
| Owner/Location: | Belle Meade Plantation 5025 Harding Road Nashville, TN 37205 website |
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| Frame Dimensions: | 18 x 22 | |
| Image Dimensions: | 14 x 18 | |
| Date Documented: | 25 September 2007 | |
| Materials/Media: | Oil on Canvas | |
| Condition: | Good | |
| Description: | A portrait of Harry Basset, a single chestnut stallion with a star, thin stripe, and two white hind socks to mid-cannon bone, standing in left profile in a field with trees and hills on horizon in background. There is a turquoise sky and a green foreground. |
| History of Work: | Signed and dated lower right corner. Frame is a giltwood molding with bass plaque inscribed, “Harry Basset 1868/Belle Meade.” Portrait of Harry Basset is a copy by Stewart Treviranus in 1956 from the original by Thomas S. Scott, a British Painter, who painted the original of Harry Basset in 1868. |
| Notes: | Harry Basset was sired by Lexington out of Canary Bird by Albion in 1868. He was bred by the Woodburn Stud. He won 23 races including the Belmont Stake and the Saratoga Cup. Location: East Side Hall |