Edward Troye

Commissioned by A. Keene Richards, Kentucky
Major Barak G. Thomas
Acquired by The Jockey Club, 1907

New York, The Jockey Club, 1907
New York, Newhouse Galleries, Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Edward Troye 1808-1874, 1938, no. 30
Georgetown, Kentucky, Georgetown & Scott Country Museum, Edward Troye, 13 July - 31 August, 2003
Virginia, National Sporting Library & Museum, Coming Home Series: Edward Troye (1808-1974), 26 October 2014 - March 29, 2015

New York, Newhouse Gallery, 1938, no. 30.
John Hervey, Racing in America, 1665-1865, 1944, vol. II, p. 352, illustrated.
Genevieve Baird Lacer, Edward Troye: Painter of Thoroughbred Stores. Prospect, Kentucky: Harmony House Publishers, 2006, p. 219.
Alexander Mackay-Smith, The Race Horses of America, 1832-1872, Portraits and Other Paintings by Edward Troye, 1981, pp. 316-318, illustrated, 319-320, 382, 386, 433.
National Sporting Library & Museum, Coming Home Series: Edward Troye (1808-1974), Virginia, 2014, pl. 37, pp. 122-123, illustrated, 139.

Troye painted this portrait of War Dance, signed and dated October 15, 1869, on a shaped canvas with an arched top.

War Dance was a chestnut colt foaled in 1860 by Lexinton out of the great grey broodmare Reel by imported Glencoe. She was also the dam of Lecomte, Prioress, and Starke, all four bred by Reel's owner Thomas Jefferson Wells of Wellswood on the Bayou Fourche of the Red River near Alexandria, Louisiana.