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Painting Race Horse Neil Gow Jockey Danny Maher Up At Newmarket By Isaac Cullin

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This historic painting depicts the iconic 2000 Guineas race at Newmarket, featuring the famous race horse Neil Gow and jockey Danny Maher. Painted by renowned artist Isaac James Cullin, this artwork captures the excitement and beauty of horse racing. A must-have for any art collector or equestrian enthusiast.
Impress your clients & guests with this equine horse racing historical masterpiece to display on your office or home wall space.
Subject Equine horse racing portrait featuring Lord Rosebery's thoroughbred colt racing horse Neil Gow in full galloping stride ridden by Danny Maher up, he is beating his main rival for the race Lemberg, who would go on to win the Derby. The details is so incredible of the horse with the muscle definition and the rich brown hue colours along with the background low cut green grass hues, with overcast grey sky above with some areas of lighter blue shining through. Racing at the known track Newmarket in the year 1910, views of the large crowd in the background standing, mainly gentlemen wearing top black hats with a lady seen in a fine pink & white dress just behind the white partition fence, wearing smart traditional clothing of the Edwardian era. also with the main Grandstand shown further to the right.
Title “2000 Guineas Horse Race & Newmarket 1910 featuring Lord Rosebery's Neil Gow ridden by Jockey Danny Maher” beating his main rival for the race Lemberg, who would go on to win The Derby by Isaac James Cullin.
Watercolour on paper backed with board & having a recently added AR70 protective glass front cover.
Set in a recent decorative Larson Juhl pine gold leaf moulded gilt frame & remounted with an acid free mount.
In our opinion this is is a very fine example of his work.
Circa early 20th century dated 1910.
This painting is signed in the bottom corner by the known British sporting portrait artist Isaac Cullins.
Artist biography Isaac James Cullin was born at E.D. 6, Ward 15, New York City, U.S.A., on 18 June 1859, son of Irish born James R. Cullin (born c.1825), and his English wife Hannah née Powell (born c.1830). In 1860, living at 3rd District, 15th Ward, New York, 36-year-old James and 26-year-old Hannah, with their three children, Anna 5, William 3 and Isaac 1. Isaac started his art career as a portrait painter and he exhibited at The Salon, New York in an exhibition of American Artists in 1882, 'Portrait of M B', but his interest in horses and his artistic skill led him to concentrate on equestrian portraiture and from 1882 painted mostly racehorses and watercolours of races and numerous other equestrian events. Also exhibited at the Royal Academy, He was in London by 1882 when commissioned to paint 'The Lawn at Goodwood' in which was included the then Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. In 1883 he collaborated with John Alfred Wheeler (1821-1903) in painting that year's Grand National winner and he later went on to produce sporting illustrations for 'The Illustrated London News'.
Isaac married at St George's Hanover Square, London in 1890, Fanny [Frances] née Albrecht (1868-1942), who was born at Bordeaux, France. By 1901, he was living at Newmarket, Suffolk and in 1911 was a 52-year-old artist living at Sandiver House, St Mary's Square, Newmarket with his 43-year-old wife Fanny and three children, two sons James 20 and William 17, both born at Fulham, London and 14-year-old daughter Hannah, born at Kensington. Cullin's talent lies in his splendid portrayal of both people and horses in action. His horses are painted strongly, accurately, and photographically, such is the attention paid to detail in every movement. Isaac James Cullin died at the British Home & Hospital for the Incurables, Crown Lane, Streatham, London on 21 March 1942, and his wife died at Cambridge in the same year. The highest recorded sold price was for the racing work The Finish which sold for £32,900 Pounds sterling at Christie's in 2000.
History of the race Two Thousand Guineas, one of the English Classic horse races (with the Derby, the Saint Leger, the One Thousand Guineas, and the Oaks), first run in 1809. Run at Newmarket, Suffolk, the 1-mile event is open to three-year-old colts (carrying 126 pounds) and fillies (121 pounds).
Biography of Jockey Daniel Aloysius Maher (October 29, 1881 – November 9, 1916) was an American Hall of Fame jockey who also became a Champion jockey in Great Britain. Daniel Aloysius "Danny" Maher commenced his career at the age of 14, weighing 65 pounds. He served his apprenticeship under Bill Daly, a well known developer of jockey talent. Three years later, in 1898, he topped America's jockey's list. Maher was best known in the United States for winning the Metropolitan Handicap on Ethelbert (1900), the Brooklyn Handicap and Toboggan Handicap on Banaster (1899), the Champagne Stakes on Lothario (1898), and the Ladies Handicap on Oneck Queen (1900). Maher was America's leading jockey in 1898.
The Hart–Agnew Law anti-gambling legislation forced Maher and numerous other jockeys and trainers to leave America for Europe where they quickly made a mark on European racing. n England, Maher won 1,421 races with 25 percent of his mounts.
He won his first English Classic on Aida in the 1901 1,000 Guineas and later that year won the Chester Cup on the colt David Garrick, owned by American Pierre Lorillard IV. In 1903, Maher won two-thirds of England's Triple Crown with Rock Sand. He also won The Derby three times (1903, 1905, 1906), five Eclipse Stakes (1902, 1904, 1906, 1909, 1910), and was a two-time winner of the Ascot Gold Cup (1906, 1909). In 1907 Maher's wins included the King's Gold Vase. Maher was Britain's leading jockey in 1908 and 1913, the year he obtained British citizenship. Maher died in 1916, at the age of 35, of consumption. He is buried in Paddington Cemetery, Mill Hill, London, England.
Biography of the race horse Neil Gow (1907–1919) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire who won the classic 2000 Guineas in 1910. In a racing career that lasted from spring 1909 until July 1910 the colt ran ten times and won seven races, attracting attention both for his racing ability and for his difficult and unpredictable temperament. He raced four times against the 1910 Epsom Derby winner Lemberg, winning twice outright and dead-heating on a third occasion. Neil Gow was one of the best British two-year-olds of 1909, when he won the National Stakes at Sandown Park, the Imperial Produce Stakes at Kempton Park and the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster. After winning the Craven Stakes on his first appearance of 1910 he overcame a strong field to win the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket. He finished fourth in the Derby and then dead-heated in the Eclipse Stakes. He was injured in training later that year and was retired from racing at the end of the season. He had limited success as a breeding stallion before his death in 1919.
Biography of the horse owner Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian (7 May 1847 – 21 May 1929) was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from March 1894 to June 1895. Between the death of his father, in 1851, and the death of his grandfather, the 4th Earl of Rosebery, in 1868, he was known by the courtesy title of Lord Dalmeny. As a result of his marriage to Hannah de Rothschild, Rosebery acquired the Mentmore Towers estate and Mentmore stud near Leighton Buzzard which had been built by Mayer Amschel de Rothschild. Rosebery built another stable and stud near Mentmore Towers at Crafton, Buckinghamshire, called Crafton Stud. Rosebery won several of the five English Classic Races. His most famous horses were Ladas who won the 1894 Derby, Sir Visto who won it in 1895 (Rosebery was Prime Minister on both occasions), and Cicero in 1905.
Provenance The late Richard “Dickie” Onslow, horse racing journalist, author and historian. Southern shire high end racing history auction & Exhibited Famous Lord Hill Museum & in collection of Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD.
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With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home display.
Condition report offered in fine used condition. Painting surface in good overall order, having foxing stains to the surface, The frame has been recently added and remounted & is in excellent order having some minor imperfections commensurate with being handmade.
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Dimensions in centimetres of frame

High (53.5 cm)
Depth (4.5 cm)
Wide (63 cm)