Antique William Robbie Clydesdale Horses Painting

Antique William Robbie Clydesdale Horses Painting (image 1/1)
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Clydesdale Horses - amazing piece of folk art by William Robbie of Peterhead.Frame has evidence of old woodworm but no new holes and has several dings and scrapes. Biography: William Robbie, 1887-1967, was a farm worker who, during his life, painted about two thousand of these works. He used the same pair of horses, sometimes facing left and sometimes right, painting them in various different colours and with subtle differences in their tack and backgrounds. The earliest work s had all the harness cut out in silver cigarette paper but as he got older he reverted to silver paint. The backgrounds were usually the farms where he was working or those of his patrons. The paintings are of wonderful quality, some are painted on cardboard, often from chocolate boxes. The late Dr. Kenneth S. Goldstein from Canada who spent a year studying folklore in Buchan, North East Scotland, was astounded by Robbie’s work and recorded that ‘he was one of the finest Folk artists in Britain’. One of Robbie’s works was bought by the National Collection of Scotland and is on view in the Aberdeen Art Gallery. William Robbie was one of thirteen children born to a farmworker and his wife in the Parish of Old Deer. He showed artistic promise from an early age, however modest earnings prevented the family from sending Robbie to art school, instead he flourished read more
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