Description:Painting depicts the bay stallion Iroquois, facing left, being held by a groom. He is shown with William Harding Jackson and Sam Nichols at Belle Meade. There is a stockade fence in the background. The sky is turquoise with clouds. The foreground is dirt.
History:Jean Bowman was an American painter and illustrator who was born in 1917.
Notes:Iroquois was a bay stallion with a small star, a thin stripe on his face and a white coronet band on his left front leg. He stood at 16 hands. He was by Leamington out of Maggie B. B. by Australia. Iroquois was the leading sire at Belle Meade Plantation in 1892. The stallion was originally owned by Pierre Lorillard. Iroquois became the first America bred horse to win the English Derby in 1881. He also won the St. Leger Stakes, another major European race. Location: Farm Office
