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Susan Crawford

Susan Crawford

Susan Crawford was born in Scotland in 1941 and was brought up on a farm in East Lothian where her parents bred and trained racehorses. She was educated at St Denis School, Edinburgh and at Priorsfield, Godalming, before studying classical drawing for two years at Studio Simi in Florence. In 1967 she went to Ireland for a few days…

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Adrian Jones

Adrian Jones

British sculptor. From 1867 to 1890 he was an army veterinary surgeon, painting and sculpting in his spare time. When he retired from military service (with the rank of captain) he became a full-time sculptor, specializing in subjects involving horses, of whose anatomy he had an intimate knowledge. His major work is the huge Quadriga…

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Des Snee

Des Snee

Des Snee, one of Ireland’s best known artists, died on September 7, peacefully in his home in Avoca. He was 48. A native of Dublin, Des moved down to the Garden of Ireland in 1999, and during these years he lived in Rathdrum, Arklow and Avoca. Des did not come from an artistic background and…

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Peter Curling

Peter Curling

Peter Curling was born in Waterford, Ireland in 1955.  He was educated in England and studied drawing with Signorina Nera Simi in Florence from 1972 to 1974.  He also spent a short time with John Skeaping R.A. He is well known for his work depicting horses. He lives in Tipperary where he has spent his…

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David Dent

David Dent

David has also had extensive interest and success in the Fashion business as a stylist. His anthropological research was in the meaning of youth cultural styles, which had followed on from specialism in his Education degree in such. His specialist subject of History also featured a thesis on style and culture in Germany 1920-1945. He…

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David Trundley

David Trundley

David Trundley was born in 1949 and live the first years of his life in the fenland town of March, Cambridgeshire. Racing is his passion resulting in frequent visits to his parents home near Newmarket from which long days painting on the heath have laid the foundations for his present work

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Snaffles – Charles Johnson Payne

Snaffles – Charles Johnson Payne

Charles “Snaffles” Johnson Payne (1884–1967) was an English painter best known for his humorous work. Snaffles specialised in water colours and drawings sold as prints which, at least initially, were hand coloured by the artist and his sisters. His subject matter was invariably military, racing or hunting / equestrian scenes (polo, pig sticking), or some…

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Sir Alfred Munnings

Sir Alfred Munnings

Alfred Munnings was born 8 October 1878 at Mendham, Suffolk across the River Waveney from Harleston in Norfolk. His father ran a water-mill on the river at Mendham. At fourteen he was apprenticed to a Norwich printer, designing and drawing advertising posters for the next six years, attending the Norwich School of Art in his…

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