St. Columba's Farewell to the White Horse
Date1868
Artist
Alice Boyd
(British painter and draftsman, 1825–1897)
MediumOil on board
Dimensions13 7/8 × 19 7/8 in. (35.2 × 50.5 cm)
frame: 20 3/8 × 26 1/2 in. (51.8 × 67.3 cm)
frame: 20 3/8 × 26 1/2 in. (51.8 × 67.3 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 2011
Object number2011-20
On View
On viewCollections
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextAlice Boyd was the one of two women in a ménage à trois with William Bell Scott, a Scottish painter and mentor to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Like many of the women associated with the Pre-Raphaelite painters, Boyd was a competent artist. The subject is the medieval Irish missionary monk, St. Columba, shown in his exile in Scotland. He is bidding farewell to an old white pack horse which, having a premonition of the saint’s death, has come to receive his blessing.
Alice Barber Stephens
1905
