NAM.2000-06-183-1

Black Prince, 1903. Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, ‘J. Mathews/ 1903’, by Major John Edward Chapman Mathews (1843-1927). Portrait of the horse, in regimental livery, in profile to left. ‘Black Prince’ was the charger which belonged to Mathews when a Major in the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars. Note attached to the frame is inscribed: ‘“Black Prince”, charger belonging to the Artist: Major J.C Mathews- (1843-1927) Royal Gloucester-shire Hussars- in Regimental livery- stabled in Knightsbridge, exercised in Rotten Row, taken to Bexhill for family holidays. Also to Gloucester- shire for Regimental duties Camp etc. (by train)’. Mathews was a captain in the Middlesex Yeomanry from 1880 and a captain in the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars from 1894, an Hon major from 1895 and he is last mentioned in the Army List of Sept-Oct 1901.