Untitled

Given the inscribed date this was probably painted while Flora Scales was studying at the W. Frank Calderon School of Animal Painting, London, England, which Scales attended 1908-1912.

Given as gift by Scales to a family member, 1976.

Patience Tennent, the artist's niece, describes watching as Scales scratched the inscriptions into the paint with a penknife and coloured them in with a brown/black eyebrow pencil in 1976.

Flora Scales in conversation with M. de Lange, 1983, looking at photographs of Untitled [Brown Horse] [BC001] and Untitled [Draught Horse] [BC002], "I often think what a dunderhead I was. I never once put a tree or blue sky above the animal."

Mandy Fenwick, equestrian, in correspondence with B. de Lange, 04.03.2020, "This appears to be a station bred hack with some warm blood. [It is] a bay horse with a white star on its face, a blaze on nose and four white socks around its hocks."