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Adriaan van der Hoop’s Trotter ‘De Vlugge’ (The Fast One) in a Meadow
Also titled De harddraver De Vlugge van Adriaan van der Hoop in de wei
Anthony Oberman (Amsterdam, 1781–1845)
1828
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 60 cm x width 54 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Upper-class Dutchmen aspired to the life of an English gentleman. The fabulously rich banker and art collector Adriaan van der Hoop owned racehorses and, like members of the English aristocracy, had portraits made of his prizewinners. The picture’s style is also English: the horse is painted in profile, in cool bright tones, set in a sober composition. The horse stands in a meadow in Van der Hoop’s estate near Haarlem.
