Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Portrait of "King's Protector"
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1900 / 1902
Dimensions:
24 × 30 in. (61 × 76.2 cm)
Mr. and Mrs. Glen A. Eberly
Accession number: SUPP2000.422
Research Number: NCW: 422
InscribedLower right: -W- / 1902; on reverse of canvas: Painted by our uncle when he was a student at Boston Normal Art School
ProvenanceThe artist; Edmund George Pond; Mrs. Gladys Pond Wyeth; descended in family
Curatorial RemarksThe stallion is King's Protector, owned by Edmund George Pond of Needham, MA. According to an 1896 booklet "Pedigrees of Stallions and Brood Mares Owned by E. G. Pond," King's Protector was a mahogany bay born July 3, 1889 and eventually weighed 1,100 pounds.
In a letter written to his mother from his Franklin Street studio on March 4, 1907, the artist said: I had rather wait and give Uncle Deny an original....You know he was one who encouraged me perhaps more than anybody seven years ago during the time I was painting Ponds stallion etc."
In a letter written to his mother from his Franklin Street studio on March 4, 1907, the artist said: I had rather wait and give Uncle Deny an original....You know he was one who encouraged me perhaps more than anybody seven years ago during the time I was painting Ponds stallion etc."
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Randal Stegmeyer, Spectrum Imaging, 10/2004