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THEODORE SYDNEY MOÏSE
b. 1808, Charleston, South Carolina d. 1883, Natchitoches, Louisiana
The Coachman, 1859 Oil on canvas; 22 x 28 in. Louisiana State Museum
Theodore Sydney Moïse was a painter of people and of horses. He is said to have been one of the first horse painters in the South. Moïse moved as a young man to Woodville, Mississippi, and later, in 1842, to New Orleans. Two of his best-known portraits are of Senator Henry Clay, commissioned by John Freeland, and General Andrew Jackson on horseback. Moïse’s style is Neoclassical, having characteristics similar to the works of eighteenth-century French artists such as Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres or Jacques-Louis David. One of his best known paintings, Life on the Metairie, is a depiction of forty-four distinguished New Orleanians at the last meet of the Metairie Race Track. In 1868 it won first prize at the Louisiana Grand State Fair for best historical painting. ABD
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