Every Friday at 1300 hours, Tally-Ho Corner’s cleverest clogs come together to solve a ‘foxer’ handcrafted by my sadistic chum and colleague, Roman. A complete ‘defoxing’ sometimes takes several days and usually involves the little grey cells of many readers.
To fully defox this jigsaw foxer you’ll need to identify 30 ‘Paintings Wot Include Horses’.
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SOLUTIONS
Hive foxer theme: Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ (defoxed by ylla)
bah humbug (Colonel_K)
belle (ylla)
blot of mustard (ylla)
caine (ylla)
counting house (ylla)
finney (Colonel_K)
ghost (Colonel_K)
knocker (Colonel_K, ylla)
leech (ylla)
nightcap (ylla)
norfolk biffin (Colonel_K)
sim (ylla)
speckled cannonball (copperbottom, Colonel_K)
surplus population (ylla)
Geofoxer theme: The first or last word of Christmas carol titles (defoxed by Colonel_K)
a. we three kings (Froggster)
b. in the bleak midwinter ()
c. the first noel (Colonel_K)
d. little donkey (Colonel_K)
e. good king wenceslas (ylla)
f. deck the halls (Colonel_K)
g. the holly and the ivy (Froggster, Colonel_K)
h. god rest ye merry, gentlemen (Colonel_K)
i. o come, o come, emmanuel (copperbottom)
j. o come, all ye faithful (Colonel_K)
k. hark! the herald angels sing (Colonel_K)
B4 – A Lion Attacking a horse (George Stubbs)
A6 – St George and the Dragon – Paolo Uccello (Seen this one)
B5 – Charge of the Royal Scots Greys at Waterloo – Elizabeth Butler
B2 – The Surrender of Breda or The Lances – Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez
C4 – The Blank Signature – Rene Magritte (One of my least favourite artists!)
A5 – The Circus – Seurat, Georges (With Mrs Nutfield)
D3 – Charles I – Anthony van Dyck
A2. The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus by Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Wildens, 1618
E6. ‘Seeing Off a Recruit’ by Ilya Repin, 1879
E5 – Horse attacked by a Jaguar – Henri Rousseau (Recognised the style from his Tiger painting)
D2 – Leonora Carrington – Self Portrait (Mrs Nutfield)
E2 – Stanley Spencer – Sandham Memorial Chapel (“The Resurrection of the Soldiers”, maybe?)
Local to me – highly recommended if you’re in the area, but be sure to visit during daylight!
A4. ‘The Drummer of His Majesty’s First Life Guard’ by Sir Alfred Munnings
(Confident on the artist; not quite 100% on what the title is)
D6 – Gauguin, “Riders on the Beach”
A1 – Joan Miró, “Horse, Pipe and Red Flower”
B3. ‘Racecourse at Epsom’ by Raoul Dufy, 1934
Has a couple of paintings with similar/the same titles, it’s this one:
https://www.alamy.com/courses-epsom-by-raoul-dufy-1877-1953-oil-on-canvas-1934-dufy-was-a-french-fauvist-painter-who-developed-a-colourful-decorative-style-that-quickly-became-fashionable-image330680692.html
E4. ‘Smoke Signals’ by Frederic Sackrider Remington
B1 – Franz Marc – The Dream (1912)
B6. ‘Le Marchand de bestiaux (The Drover, The Cattle Dealer)’ by another Marc: Marc Chagall, 1912
C2 – John Constable – The Leaping Horse (1825)
A3 – Jack Butler Yeats – A Welcome
C3 – Fortunino Matania – The Last Absolution of the Munster Fusiliers at Rue de Bois (1915)
D3 – Anthony van Dyck – Portrait of King Charles I of England (1633)
C1 – Laura Knight, “Circus Matinee”
E3 – Giorgio de Chirico, “The Red Tower”
C5. ‘A Portrait Group’ by James Cowie, approx. 1940
So far as I can tell, there are 5 remaining to be identified:
C6,
D1, D4, D5,
E1
E1 appears to have Napoleon’s hat in it, but I haven’t got any further than that.
You are right, it is about Napoleon. It is an oil-on-canvas painting by French painter François Gérard. It’s name is: Battle of Austerlitz, 2 December 1805.
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Austerlitz,_2_December_1805_(G%C3%A9rard)
E1 – Battle of Austerlitz, 2 December 1805.
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Austerlitz,_2_December_1805_(G%C3%A9rard)
D1 – Remnants of an Army
The remnants of an army, Jellalabad (sic), January 13, 1842, better known as Remnants of an Army, is an 1879 painting by Elizabeth Thompson.
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remnants_of_an_Army
C6 – Vercingetorix surrendering to Jules Cesar after the Battle of Alesia.
It’s a painting by Henri-Paul Motte. This one was not easy to find, as it is not used in the article about Vercingetorix on wikipedia.
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Paul_Motte#/media/File:Vercing%C3%A9torix_se_rend_%C3%A0_C%C3%A9sar_1886_HPMotte.jpg
On his way to lay his arms at Caesar’s feet, presumably.
https://www.pipelinecomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/asterix_v1_vercingetorix_NewColors.jpeg
D4 – The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane (1858) by American artist John Quidor
Found that one on an pumpkin hunch! It depict a scene from “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”.
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Headless_Horseman_Pursuing_Ichabod_Crane#/media/File:John_Quidor_-_The_Headless_Horseman_Pursuing_Ichabod_Crane_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
D5 – Bonaparte Before the Sphinx (1886) by Jean-Léon Gérôme
So, it was also a Napoleon painting!
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonaparte_Before_the_Sphinx#/media/File:Bonaparte_ante_la_Esfinge,_por_Jean-L%C3%A9on_G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me.jpg