John Rattenbury Skeaping. English ( b.1901 - d.1980 ).A Three Horse Race, 1963.Gouache & Watercolour. Signed & Dated Lower Left.Image size 15.6 inches x 21.5 inches ( 39.5cm x 54.5cm ).Frame size 23.2 inches x 28.7 inches ( 59cm x 73cm ).Available for sale from Big Sky Fine Art in the English county of Dorset, this original gouache and watercolour painting is by John Rattenbury Skeaping and is dated 1963.The painting is presented and supplied in a new contemporary frame (which is shown in these photographs), a new mount, conservation materials and non-reflective Tru Vue UltraVue� UV70 glass.This vintage painting is in very good condition, commensurate with its age. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display.The painting is signed and dated 1963 lower left.Previously with Arthur Ackermann & Son Ltd, 3 Old Bond Street, London W.1.Regarded as the leading equine sculptor of the twentieth century, John Rattenbury Skeaping was also a highly regarded racehorse artist. As a child he showed an early aptitude for art and was educated from the age of 13 at the Blackheath School of Art, Goldsmiths College, the Central School of Arts & Crafts and finally the Royal Academy Schools, where he won the Royal Academy Gold Medal and travelling scholarship. He then taught in Newcastle. In 1924 Skeaping won the Prix de Rome and went to Rome on a three-year scholarship. Barbara Hepworth won the second prize and they met in Rome and married in Florence in 1925. They returned to London and worked together for a while, putting on a joint exhibition in Glasgow and London in 1928 that established them in the forefront of British Sculpture. During the Second World War Skeaping served in the Royal Intelligence Corps as an official war artist before transferring to the SAS in North Africa. After the war he and his second wife lived in Devon for a while before returning to London where he spent a period teaching at...