Thomas Kirby Van Zandt
Illustration — Judge Van Aernum in his Sleigh by Thomas Kirby Van Zandt, 1855 • Illustration — Captain Hamilton Leroy Shields of Bennington, with his trotter Mary Colgate Thomas Kirby Van Zandt (March 7, 1814 - January 2, 1886) was a painter active in the Albany, New York region. He is remembered for his paintings of race horses for owners including Leland Stanford, Erastus Corning, and Eli Whitney, but also painted bust-length portraits of Albany citizens, dogs, and other animals. It has been hypothesized (see Ione) that Van Zandt traced his horse figures from lantern projections of Eadweard Muybridge's celebrated photographs.
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Thomas Kirby Van Zandt
![Judge Van Aernum in his Sleigh by Thomas Kirby Van Zandt. Signed center-left foreground: Van Zandt Albany / Feb 1855. From the Albany Institute of History Art. See [1].](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Judge_Van_Aernum_in_his_Sleigh_by_Thomas_Kirby_Van_Zandt.jpg/705px-Judge_Van_Aernum_in_his_Sleigh_by_Thomas_Kirby_Van_Zandt.jpg)
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- 1814
- Died
- 1886
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- United States
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- painter · artist
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Thomas Kirby Van Zandt was born in 1814. Thomas Kirby Van Zandt died in 1886.
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Born in 1814, died in 1886.
Thomas Kirby Van Zandt (1814–1886) was an American painter and artist.
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