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Image of The Dawson Brothers: William A. Jr. on Jack, John Holding the Bird Dog Nimrod and the Coursing Dog Silky at Carolina Hall, Mobile, Alabama

Edward Troye
American, born Switzerland, 1808–1874

The Dawson Brothers: William A. Jr. on Jack, John Holding the Bird Dog Nimrod and the Coursing Dog Silky at Carolina Hall, Mobile, Alabama

1850

Object Type: Painting
Creation Place: North America, American, Kentucky
Dimensions:
27 x 36 1/8 in. (69 x 92 cm)
Medium and Support: Oil on canvas
Accession Number: 2022.0004

Credit Line: Gift of the Ida Belle Young Art Acquisition Fund


The two boys in this painting are the eldest sons of William A. Dawson, a cotton factor (or sales agent) who lived near Mobile, one of the busiest ports on the Gulf of Mexico engaged in trans-Atlantic trade in the early 19th century. According to the title, the boys are shown on the grounds of Dawson's 1840 Georgian-style home, Carolina Hall, which sat on about 100 acres of woodlands west of Mobile. As a genre, this work can be classified as a “conversation piece,” that is, a composition type made popular in England in the 18th century which shows people, often families or groups of friends, portrayed informally in a garden or a domestic interior.

The artist trained in London as a painter of animal subjects, and came to the U.S. in 1831. He taught drawing and French at Spring Hill College between 1849 and 1855, but is best-known for his hundreds of paintings of prize-winning American thoroughbred racehorses. This work is a very rare example of a painting made in Alabama in the 19th century by a trained artist, representing known sitters and landscape in an identifiable location.

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