Equine artist Michael Jeffery dies at 72
Equine creative somebody Michael Jeffery has died at the historic menstruum of 72 later a long battle amongst cancer.
Born inwards Auckland, New Zealand, Jeffery was based inwards Newmarket inwards Great Britain at the fourth dimension of his death.
Up to 1969 he was self-taught until he went to Great Britain for 2 years in addition to studied equine portraiture privately inwards London amongst an creative somebody of international repute. He too spent unopen to fourth dimension studying the hold out of the masters inwards the sporting in addition to landscape fields.
He returned to New Zealand inwards 1971 in addition to continued to specialise inwards equine art, earlier moving to Commonwealth of Australia inwards 1972 to accept upward the Victoria Racing Club’s ‘Australian Racehorse of the Year’ commission. He painted the laurels winners for fourteen years.
Jeffery travelled to the USA, United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland in addition to Republic of Ireland to fulfill commissions, in addition to inwards Commonwealth of Australia painted winners of the AJC Derby in addition to the Golden Slipper Stakes in addition to worked amongst a squad of artists to pigment vii large historic panels on the ceiling of Earth stand upward at Flemington Racecourse inwards Melbourne.
In 1987 he moved to French Republic to participate inwards an international exposition of equine fine art inwards Chantilly. He stayed at that topographic point for 10 years, receiving commissions to pigment winners of pregnant races inwards Italy, French Republic in addition to the UK, earlier moving to Newmarket inwards 1997.
There, he painted out of a studio inwards All Saints Road. In recent months he had been working on a portrait of Frankel, commissioned past times the belatedly Sir Henry Cecil.
Jeffery’s hold out is represented at the National Horseracing Museum in addition to inwards individual collections worldwide.
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