Scott, who rendered the distinguished race horse in the oil painting, Portrait of Lexington, ca. 1857, a work that Smithsonian curator Eleanor Harvey describes as "visually riveting." SAAM ...

(MENAFN- USA Art News) Horse racing. The sport captured the hearts of millions of people and held their attention for centuries. It is an iconic sport that has the richest history filled with ...

he said. "He was lost in history." Without Scott's paintings, we would have no visual record of many great race horses of the mid-1800s. Ironically, there are no known images of Scott himself ...

The oval is still there, but the Metairie Race Course isn't. Neither is the painting that immortalized the days when horse races were the sport of the day in Metairie. Perhaps the the most famous ...