Table of Contents

• I. First Works in Detroit, 1878-1879
• II. Military History Paintings 1880-1887
• III. The Paris Paintings, 1887-1890
• IV. Works for publisher, George Barrie, 1892-1893
• V. Portraits, 1880-1904
• VI. Drawings and Illustrations, 1880-1909
• VII. Sculpture
• VIII. Later Military Works, 1895-1900
• IX. Genre Works and Final Paintings, 1895-1908
• X. The Book
• XI. Photographs

Mounted Soldier, n. d.

Courtesy of Syd and Sharon Martin

Vital Statistics

Oil on board, 17 x 15 inches
Signed ll” “Trego”
Syd and Sharon Martin

Commentary

The soldier appears to be an enlisted man of a horse artillery unit, perhaps of the Civil War era or even later, in the time of the Indian Wars. The model for this work may have been James “Jimmy” Krout of North Wales who is known to have posed for Trego’s painting of a soldier of the Spanish-American War in 1900. For action scenes such as this, Trego had models pose on a barrel hanging from chains the ceiling of his studio, at the rate of one dollar a day. This work may be one of Trego’s sketches for a larger more finished work.

Exhibitions

Doylestown, Pennsylvania, James A. Michener Art Museum, June 3-Oct 2, 2011: "So Bravely and So Well: The Life and Art of William T. Trego."

Condition

The painting is in very good condition

< The Rescue of the Colors, 1899   To the Front,c. 1898 >

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