St. Columba's Farewell to the White Horse

St. Columba's Farewell to the White Horse
St. Columba's Farewell to the White Horse

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)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 2011
Object number2011-20
On View
On view
Collections
  • Pre-Raphaelites on View
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.
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