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with inscription on base: HERBERT. HASELTINE. SCVLPT. MCMLIX and THE THOROUGHBRED HORSE

bronze, dark brown and gilt patina, on orange marble base

PROVENANCE

From the collection of the artist and thence by descent
EXHIBITED

Arthur Ackerman & Peter Johnson Ltd, The Haseltines, Tuesday 12th May - Friday 29th May, London, 1998
CATALOGUE NOTE

Herbert Haseltine was the son of a painter, William Stanley Haseltine. He was born in Rome, and after attending Harvard University studied painting and drawing in Munich, Rome and Paris. He became a pupil of Aimé Nicolas Morot in 1905, and under Morot he began to model his compositions in three dimensions as studies for paintings. His interest in sculpture grew and he presented a polo group, Riding Off, to the 1906 Salon where it won honourable mention.

Haseltine first began work on modelling the ideal thoroughbred horse in 1911. In a letter to Gertrude Whitney he wrote 'I am working very hard and am building up an armature...for a bigger than life-size model of a thoroughbred...' Haseltine first exhibited The Thoroughbred Horse at the Salon of 1913 in a plaster standing at 20 hands or 80 inches.

The Thoroughbred Horse exemplifies Haseltine's working methods and aspirations. He was dedicated to defining the ideal form of the specimens he worked on, showcasing the best breeding and most idealistic form in his animal sculptures, especially in his series of British Champion Breeds. He reworked and refined the Thoroughbred model throughout his career and each new reworked model was cast in reductions.

RELATED LITERATURE
National Sculpture Society, p. 23; Conner & Rosenkrantz, p.46