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Horse painter, Portrait painter, Animal painter, b. 1806 - d. 1883

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    • Theodore Sydney Moise - LEXINGTON
      Nov. 18, 2023

      Theodore Sydney Moise - LEXINGTON

      Est: $12,000 - $15,000

      Oil on canvas Inscribed en verso Portrait of Lexington in his 4.y.o. form Taken 17th April 1855 Match against time 2nd Apr. 1855 7:19 3/4 Match against LeComte 14th Apr. 7:23 3/4 Painted for his owner R. Ten Broeck by Moise On April 1, 1854, four horses, their owners, and scores of racing fans gathered at Metairie Course in Louisiana for the Great State Post Stakes. The race would be run in four-mile heats for a purse of $20,000 (the equivalent of $700,000 today). Lexington, representing the state of Kentucky, raced against LeComte, who represented Mississippi; Highlander, running for the state of Alabama; and Arrow, racing for Louisiana. Lexington won the Great State Post Stakes and owner R. Ten Broeck claimed the $20,000 purse. Just one week later, on April 8, 1854, Lexington and LeComte would meet again in the $2,000 Jockey Club Purse. Ten Broeck's partners were not in favor of running Lexington again on such a short turnaround. Broeck, ever the gambler, bought the partners out for $5,000 on the spot, and went forward with the race. The Jockey Club Purse was contested over four one-mile heats and LeComte not only won, he set the record for a four-mile race with a time of 7:26. Ten Broeck, believing Lexington to be the better horse, offered a bet of $10,000 to T.J. Wells, LeComte's owner, that Lexington could beat LeComte's world record time of 7:26, and another $2,500 that Lexington could come back two weeks later and beat LeComte head-to-head. Wells, believing the feat impossible, happily accepted. On April 2, 1855, Lexington, racing against the record time of 7:26, turned in a time of 7:193/4, shattering the record set by LeComte. Twelve days later, on April 14, Lexington and LeComte met again in a match race of four-mile heats with a total purse of $6,000. In the final race contested between the two great horses, Lexington won the first heat in the astonishing time of 7:23 3/4, prompting T.J. Wells to decline a second heat and concede. After the race, Ten Broeck, having collected $26,000 in purses, engaged Theodore Sydney Moise to immortalize the occasion with a portrait of Lexington, "The King of the Turf." Moise was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and had moved to New Orleans in 1841, where he garnered a reputation as "one of the finest portrait and horse painters active in the South during Reconstruction," according to The Encyclopedia of New Orleans Artists. Moise spent time in Kentucky, where he painted two portraits of Henry Clay, which now reside in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Tennessee State Museum. According to the inscription on the back of the painting, Moise was already at work on the portrait by April 17, just three days after the race. The date is confirmed by an announcement posted on the 18th in the Daily Picayune: The Celebrated Race Horse Lexington. We speak with authority when we announce to the sporting world that the Champion Lexington, the winner of the two fastest races of four miles ever run in the world, 7:19 3/4, 7:23 3/4‚ and these within two weeks of each other‚ has been taken out of the training stable, and his exercise discontinued. He may be seen at Metairie Course, where he is reposing upon his laurels, and enjoying his otium cum dignitate. The celebrated artist, Mr. T. S. Moise, is engaged to take his portrait, and we need scarcely add, that it will doubtless be a lifelike picture. Daily Picayune, April 18, 1855 Theodore Sydney Moise's portrait of Lexington was taken while he was still stabled at Metairie and is the earliest known image of the mighty horse. Theodore Sydney Moise (American, 1808-1885)

      The Sporting Art Auction
    • Theodore Sidney Moise (American/Louisiana, 1808)
      Feb. 08, 2020

      Theodore Sidney Moise (American/Louisiana, 1808)

      Est: $20,000 - $30,000

      Theodore Sidney Moise (American/Louisiana, 1808-1885) , "Francis Dubose Richardson (1812-1901)", 1854, oil on canvas, unsigned, 49 3/4 in. x 40 in., framed

      Neal Auction Company
    • Theodore Sidney Moise (American/New Orleans)
      Sep. 14, 2014

      Theodore Sidney Moise (American/New Orleans)

      Est: $3,000 - $5,000

      Theodore Sidney Moise (American/New Orleans, 1808-1885), "Portrait of Marie Francoise Jeanne Fortier (1851-1873)", 1873, oil on canvas, signed and dated "Moise Oct. 73" lower right, 30 in. x 25 in., framed. Provenance: Estate of Edvidge Marie Fortier. Descended in the family of the sitter

      Neal Auction Company
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