page_title: Robert Alexander (artist)
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caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: horsebreedershan00osbo (find matches) Title: Horse-breeder's handbook&#160;: together with a history of the rise and progress of the British stud... Year: 1898 (1890s) Authors: Osborne, Joseph Subjects: Horses Thoroughbred horse Horses Publisher: London&#160;: Seale Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ring the Derby week were afforded an opportunity ofseeing St. Simon, when, no opponent venturing to face him for the Epsom GoldCup, he walked over for that trophy. St. Simons next venture was for theGold Cup at Ascot (2ml. 4 fur.), which he won very easily from four opponents,including Tristan, Faugh-a-Ballagh, Iambic, and Friday. The Gold Cup at New-castle fell to his lot shortly after, for which he found little difficulty in defeatingthe four-year-old Chislehurst, at a difference of 81b.&#160;; and he wound up his secondaeries of successive triumphs with the Goodwood Cup (2 ml. 4 fur.), defeatingOssian by twenty lengths, with Friday beaten almost out of sight. This wasSt. Simons last race, which permitted of his entering into stud life with a whollyunimpaired constitution, the good effects of which have gained for him the firstplace among all the stallions of his time, as his progeny have won no fewer than214 races of the value of £230,119, during the seven years they have been running. Text Appearing After Image: THE HORSE-BREEDERS HANDBOOK. 122 PEDIGREE OP ST. SIMON. Voltaire(Br—1826). Martha Lynn(Br—1837). Birdcatcher(Ch.—18.33). Nan Darrell(B.—1814). Blacklock by Whitelock—dau. of Coriander (PotSos)—Wild Goose byHighflyer (Herod)—Co-heiress by PotSos—Manilla by Goldfinder. Dau. of Phantom (Walton—Julia by WMsky)—dau. of Overton—Grati-tudes dam by Walnut—dau. of Ruler—Ficarantha by Matchem. Mulatto by Catton (Golumpus by Gohanna)—Desdemona by Orville—Fanny by Sir Peter—dau. of Diomed—Desdemona by Marske, disc. Leda by Filho-da-Puta—Treasure by Camillus (Hambletonian)—dau. ofHyacinthus (Coriander)—Flora by King Fergus—Atalanta by Matchem. Sir Hercules by Whalebone—Peri by Wanderer (Gohanna)—Thalestrisby Alexander—Rival by Sir Peter—Hornet by Drone (Herod), &amp;c. Guiccioli by Bob Booty (Chanticleer—leme by Bagot)—Flight by IrisliEscape (Commodore)—Y. Heroine by Bagot—Heroine by Hero, &amp;c. Bay Middleton(B.—1833). Barbelle(B.—183 Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Robert Alexander RSA RSW was a 19th and early 20th century Scottish artist. He had a special interest in dog and horse portraits.
context_section_description: He was born in Dalgarven near Kilwinning in Ayrshire. He was apprenticed to a painter and decorator in Irvine around 1854, who also taught him how to paint landscapes.
  Around 1860 he obtained a position in the workshops of the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh. From 1868 he fully adopted oil painting as his profession, largely painting rural scenes and animals. He was elected ARSA in 1878 and RSA in 1888.
  In 1887/88 he visited Tangiers with Joseph Crawhall III, Pollock Nisbet and his son Edwin.
  He was an influence on the artist George Denholm Armour and accompanied him on a second trip to Tangiers. He visited Paris in 1906 and was greatly influenced thereafter by the Impressionists. His main patron was the Duke of Portland.
  He died in Edinburgh on 2 August 1923 and is buried in Dean Cemetery. His grave faces northwards to an east-west path in the inner north-west section, but is concealed behind larger graves.
caption: Portrait of St. Simon
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