Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Sporting Print
Diamond, with Dennis Fitzpatrick Up
Benjamin Marshall, 1799 · oil on canvas
What it is
The bay racehorse Diamond stands with Dennis Fitzpatrick in the saddle beside a white post on an open course, signed and dated by Benjamin Marshall in 1799.
Why it matters
Marshall, an English sporting painter (1768–1835), painted horse and rider as one portrait, a format the next century repeated for every champion.
What to notice
The storm-grey sky lets the horse’s coat and the jockey’s silks carry all the colour.
Ready, and waiting for no one.
Provenance
- Maker
- Benjamin Marshall, 1799
- Era
- The Georgian Turf (1750–1837)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Made
- 1799
- Horse
- Diamond
- Figure
- Dennis Fitzpatrick
- Source
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection · via Wikimedia Commons
Publicity
Clear — the historic British turf (the Victorian jockeys, the Vanity Fair subjects): a long-deceased figure with no post-mortem right of publicity in play. Sold as history, freely and openly.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the work’s own year of publication. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01. Wikimedia Commons licence tag, read 2026-11-01: PD-Art|PD-old-100-1923|deathyear=1835. The maker died in 1835.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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The Trotting Mare Nancy Hanks
Elsewhere in the family
- The Links — the other morning religion.
- Painted Lineage — the bloodline, beside the family line.
- Painted Earth — home ground as a period map.