Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Sporting Print
Sir Charles Warre Malet’s String of Racehorses at Exercise
Francis Sartorius, c. 1800 · oil on canvas
What it is
Sir Charles Warre Malet’s string exercises across wide green country, horses in rugs walking in file while others canter behind, painted by Francis Sartorius around 1800.
Why it matters
Malet had served the East India Company as Resident at the court of the Peshwa before he kept racehorses in England.
What to notice
The horses repeat across the canvas like a frieze, every one in the same clothing.
The morning string, all in step.
Provenance
- Maker
- Francis Sartorius, c. 1800
- Era
- The Georgian Turf (1750–1837)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Made
- 1800
- Source
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection · via Wikimedia Commons
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=1804. The maker died in 1804.
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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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.