Changing Horses

  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Art Collection
  • About the artist
    Equestrian painter Charles Cooper Henderson was born at the Abbey House, Chertsey, in Surrey; the younger son of amateur artist John Henderson and his wife, Georgian, daughter of author and painter George Keate. Educated at Winchester College, Charles qualified for the bar but did not practise. He also took art lessons from Samuel Prout and became a prolific artist, specialising in hunting and coaching subjects, many of which were published by Messrs Fores of Piccadilly and Rudolph Ackermann. Some were etched by Henderson himself. He sent coaching scenes to the Royal Academy exhibitions in 1840 and 1848. After his mother's death in 1850, he became financially independent. He died at his home at Lower Halliford-on-Thames, Middlesex, aged 74.
    John Harris III was an aquatint engraver of sporting and military subjects after works by contemporary artists. He was born in London and may have been the son of the watercolourist, illustrator and lithographer known as John Harris II. However, it has also been suggested that he was the son of a cabinet maker. Harris remained in London for the duration of his life and worked mainly for the publisher Ackermann and Fores.
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    Materials & Techniques
    aquatint, coloured aquatint
  • Details
    Title
    Changing Horses
    Date
    published 1 January 1842
    Medium
    Coloured aquatint
    Dimensions
    height: 61.20 cm, width: 80.70 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Bishops of Bideford, February 1954
    GAC number
    2609