Edward Troye

Harry Worcester, "Edward Troye (1808-1874): The Painter of American Blood Horses," The Lexington Herald, April 15, 1926, p. 1.

John Hervey, Racing in America, 1665-1865, 1944, vol. II, p. 149, illustrated

New York, Knoedler Galleries, 1948, no. 19 

Kent Hollingsworth, "The Equine Art of E. Troye," The Blood-Horse, December 23, 1967, p. 3949.

"Edward Troye, sporting artist," The Magazine Antiques, vol. CV, no. 4 (April 1974), p. 804.

Alexander Mackay-Smith, The Race Horses of America, 1832-1872, Portraits and Other Paintings by Edward Troye, 1981, pp. 144, 428 ASB 24.

Genevieve Baird Lacer, Edward Troye: Painter of Thoroughbred Stores. Prospect, Kentucky: Harmony House Publishers, 2006, p. 200.

National Sporting Library & Museum, Coming Home Series: Edward Troye (1808-1974), Virginia, 2014, pl. 29, pp. 106-107, illustrated, 138.

Speed Art Museum, Tales from the Turf: the Kentucky Horse, 1825-1950, 2019, cat. 47, p. 153.

Troye first painted Glencoe in 1842 and again, in 1857, some three weeks before the horse's death. The Jockey Club picture is an autograph replica of this last portrait (now in the collection of the National Museum of Racing in Saratoga Springs, New York), painted true to nature with all the signs of age inevitable in a racehorse with such a long and successful career. Keene Richards, Glencoe's final owner, announced the horse's death in a letter headed Georgetown, Kentucky, August 26th and published in Porter's Spirit of the Times, citing the prime painting as one of Troye's chef d'oeuvres.

Glencoe was a British bred thoroughbred racehorse, foaled in 1831 by Sultan out of Trampoline, and one of the first stallions imported into the United States when he was purchased in February 1848. He stood 15 hands 1 3/4 inches (1.57 m) high, with a large star and half-stockinged hind legs. He had a long, hollow back that sagged, especially as he aged, and developed a goiter in his throat, visible in Troye's portrait.