Barrie Linklater, S.E.A.(British, born 1931)Desert Orchid
£6,000 - £8,000
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Signed, oil on canvas,
66 x 89cm (26 x 35in).
Footnotes
The picture was painted in 1989.
Barrie Linklater specialises in a broad range of equestrian and portrait subjects. Based in rural Berkshire, he is well placed to study thoroughbreds at Newbury and Ascot, as well as the training gallops nearby. His first equestrian commission was inspired by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1975; during a sitting with HRH for a portrait commissioned by the Welsh Guards, Prince Philip suggested the inclusion of a horse. He went on to offer the artist a commission to paint Her Majesty's favourite mares and foals, which was to be a Jubilee present to the Queen in 1977. Several of his works are now in the Royal Collection, as well as private and public collections worlwide. He was commissioned by the Ascot Authority to depict the historic day that Frankie Dettori rode all seven winners on the course in September 1996.