Painting the Horses

 

I saw this painting at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford England and the scene intrigued me.  The painting is called "Showing at Tattersalls" and it was painted by Robert Bevan.  He was born into a family of six and his father was Richard Bevan a banker with a firm that is now known as Barclays. He studied art at the Westminster School of Art and in 1889 studied at the Academy Julian in Paris.  Bevan spent a lot of time in what were called the cab yards where horses were housed and traded.  He painted several paintings  around the theme of horses kept in cab yards and mews.  This one was painted in 1919.