Additional Details

  • Subject/Title:George Kinney
  • Artist:Stull, Henry
  • Date Created:1883
  • Owner/Location:Belle Meade Plantation 5025 Harding Road Nashville, TN 37205
  • Frame Dimensions:20 1/2 x 26 1/2
  • Image Dimensions:16 x 23
Show all
  • Materials/Media:Oil on Canvas
  • Date Documented:25 September 2007
  • Condition:Good
  • Description:George Kinney was a single bay stallion with a white star on his face and cropped tail, standing in left profile and mounted by a jockey wearing rose-colored silks with a royal blue sash. The foreground is brown, green, and gold. There are trees to the right in the background, and the sky is gray and cloudy.
  • History:Signed and dated lower left corner. Frame is beaded giltwood molding with brass plaque inscribed, “George Kinney/1880/Imp. Bonnie Scotland-Kathleen by Lexington//Belle Meade.” The artist Henry Stull was a Canadian artist from Ontario who studied anatomy at a local veterinary clinic, early in his artistry career to aid in painting various animals. Generally, Stull would initially sketch the image and then go back to paint at his New York City apartment.
  • Notes:George Kinney was a bay stallion sired by Bonnie Scotland out of Kathleen by Lexington. He was foaled in 1880. Location: East Side Hall