"Saucebox" a Racehorse with Rider Up. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Provenance: Newhouse Galleries, NYC. Property from a White Plains, NY estate.

Dimensions 17.50” h x 26" w.

Frame 22x31

Saucebox

$6,400.00

William A Sextie was born in the early 1821 in Cheltenham, England. Throughout his career he concentrated mainly on equestrian subjects particularly, the racehorse. His work is notable for its precise and almost photographic accuracy, partly because the contemporaneous invention of photography created a standard of accuracy which he tried to recreate in his own paintings. His best-known racehorse portraits include Geheimniss with Tom Cannon Up, (Tom Cannon was the great-grandfather of jockey Lester Piggot), Shotover (Derby winner of 1882), Cherry with Fred Archer up (which featured one of the greatest jockeys of all time), and Saucebox (painted for Tom Parr ) Saucebox went on to win the Doncaster St Leger in 1855. The horse was ridden by the champion jockey John Wells.