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Volume I of the Jeffords Sale With an essay by Hugh Hildesley. 171 pages. 188 lots. Sotheby's sale of Property from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords brought a total of $18,177,960 (est. $16/24 million). The Jeffords' Collection, acquired by two generations of the Jeffords family, was one of the greatest collections of American Furniture, early American Silver and Sporting Paintings ever to come to auction and the sale demonstrated the hunger of today's collectors to acquire pieces of such great provenance and rarity across a range of categories. ," commented C. Hugh Hildesley, Executive Vice President of Sotheby's. Highlighting the outstanding offering of Sporting Art from the Jeffords' Collection were works by Edward Troye that Walter Jeffords purchased from Troye's greatest patron, Alexander Keene in 1921. Chief among them was the spectacular Massoud, which sold to an American Collector for $344,000. Also among the top ten lots for the section was Asteroid with Old Ange and Brown Dick, which surpassed a high estimate of $120,000 to sell for $192,800. The significant group of depictions of Man O'War in the Jeffords Collection was highlighted by a small scale edition of the full-size cast of Man O'War at his peak (which stands over his grave at the Kentucky Horse Park) by famed equestrian sculptor Herbert Haseltine which sold for $131,200. Also by Haseltine was the lovely Ballantrae, great-great grandmother of the legendary Seabiscuit, which sold for $102,000.
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Troye was born on July 12, 1808 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
He was of French descent, his grandfather, a nobleman, having been exiled from France for political reasons. Jean Baptiste de Troy, Edward's father, was an artist of note, and one of his paintings, "The Plague of Marseilles, " now hangs in the Louvre.
In his family all children were educated in the arts, and several of them gained distinction in their several fields. He was educated and trained in London.
For some years Edward lived with his father in England, but at the age of twenty emigrated to the New World, changing his name to Troye. In the West Indies, where he first resided, he was connected with a sugar plantation and employed his leisure time in sketching and painting.
Ill health compelling him to seek a different climate, he went to Philadelphia, Pa. , and soon found employment with the art department of Sartain's Magazine.
Troye's best work, which was done between 1835 and 1874, is to be seen in his paintings of blood horses. Since photography did not become commercial until after the seventies, Troye's portraits are the truest delineations of the forebears of the great racers of the American turf, and so have much historical as well as artistic value. Before the Civil War he painted for the plantation owners of the South, where the leading thoroughbred studs of the United States were to be found.
His chief patrons were A. Keene Richards of Georgetown, Ky. , and the Alexander family of Lexington, and with them he spent the middle and latter part of his life. With Richards he made a trip in the fifties to Arabia and the Holy Land, where Richards selected and purchased a number of Arab horses, while Troye painted horses, Damascus cattle, the Dead Sea, the bazaar of Damascus, and other scenes and objects. Copies of some of these paintings are preserved at Bethany College, Bethany, W. Va.
Troye's most notable paintings are those of American Eclipse and Sir Henry, heroes of the memorable North-South match in 1823; the mighty Boston and his son Lexington, the leading sire in America for sixteen years; Lecomte, Lexington's valiant foe in the four-mile heat match at the Metairie course in New Orleans; Reel, a great brood mare, dam of Lecomte; Glencoe, sire of Reel; Revenue, Bertrand, Richard Singleton, Reality, Black Maria, Leviathan, Wagner, Ophelia--dam of Gray Eagle, and numerous others. Hanging in the Capitol at Washington is Troye's great painting of Gen. Winfield Scott, mounted on a son of Glencoe, a charger given by A. Keene Richards to John Hunt Morgan, the daring leader of Morgan's cavalry, and painted from life.
Up to 1912 not more than twenty of Troye's paintings were known in the East, but since that time over three hundred of them have been located and three-quarters of them photographed.
The chief collections in America are in the hands of the Jockey Club, New York; the Alexander family in Kentucky; Walter Jeffords, Pennsylvania; Harry Worcester Smith, Massachusetts; A. Kenneth Alexander, New York; Louis Lee Haggin, Kentucky; David Wagstaff, and Harry T. Peters of New York; Robert Gilmor, Long Island; and the Francis P. Garvan collection given to Yale University in memory of Harry Payne and Payne Whitney.
Troye was the author of The Race Horses of America (1867), of which only the first number was published.
He died on July 25, 1874 in Georgetown, Kentucky.
Edward Troye was a nineteenth-century North America's first important portrait and landscape painter. He is perhaps best known for his portraits of thoroughbred horses and for his work related to horse racing. Edward Troye established himself as the most noted painter of horses during the height of American horseracing in the nineteenth century. All equestrian artists who followed were influenced by Troye. His detailed and remarkable efforts to produce true representations of the animals set the standard for all who came after him. Photographs of the subjects of his last portraits attest to his accuracy. Edward Troye's works are housed at Yale University, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Jockey Club of America, and numerous private homes throughout the S.
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In July 1839 he was married, in Kentucky, to Cornelia Ann Van der Graff, a granddaughter of one of the Dutch governors of Ceylon. At his death he was survived by a daughter.
