James Pollard was a British painter who was best known for his depictions of horse-drawn carriages, the fox hunt and other horse scenes. He was born in 1792 in Islington, Great Britain, the son of the artist and publisher Robert Pollard the Elder. It was Robert Pollard who encouraged James to pursue his artistic talent at an early age and to follow his interest in sports painting. Due to the support of his father, James began his art career by copying works from Ben Marshall. Ben Marshall was already a well-known artist at the time, concentrating on sports scenes and horses.
At the same time James began to learn the craft of the draughtsman and engraver in his father's company. While working for his father, he was commissioned by Edward Orme, the king's printer, to paint the sign of an inn with stage coaches, horses and passengers. This commission marked a turning point in his life. His first commission work already received a lot of public attention and was also highly appreciated by the Austrian ambassador. Numerous further commissions promptly followed. He was now able to get out of his father's shadow and become independent. But he always remained true to engraving, engraving many of his paintings himself. In the same year, after his first commission, James began to exhibit at the Royal Academy and continued to do so for several years.
His focus was mainly on painting horse-drawn carriages. But with the introduction of train and bus systems, the carriages became less and less interesting and the orders to paint them became less and less frequent. James had to change his mind and began to concentrate more on hunting, racing and fishing scenes. It is known, for example, that he painted racing pictures together with the artist John Frederick Herring. It was a collaboration in which everyone had their own special task. James painted the crowd and the background, while Herring was responsible for the race horses.
Throughout his life James Pollard exhibited at the Rocal Academy, the British Institution and the Suffolk Street Galleries. Today his works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Tate Gallery in London and the Denver Art Museum, among others. Pollard died in 1867 in London, Great Britain.
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.jpg "The London-Manchester Stage Coach,")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-293878).jpg "The Grand Stand at Epsom Races (print made by Charles Hunt, 1836) by James Pollard")
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.jpg "North East view of the Old General Post Office with the Royal Mail Carriages Preparing to Depart by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The St Albans Grand Steeplechase of March 8, 1832 by James Pollard")
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_Returning_from_Hunting_engraved_by_M_Dubourg_1820_(aquati_-_(MeisterDrucke-321274).jpg "George III Returning from Hunting, engraved by M. Dubourg by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The Cambridge Coach Leaving Belle Sauvage Yard, Ludgate Hill, London by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The Meat Stall and the Fruit Stall from the London Markets, engraved by M. Dubourg, 1822 by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Epsom Races: Preparing to Start by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Hatchetts - The White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Doncaster Races: The Horses Starting for the Great St. Ledger Stakes by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Epsom Races: The Betting Post by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The Lord Nelson Inn, Cheam by James Pollard")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1172624).jpg "The Jaglione Windsor Coach by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Smithfield Market, engraved by R.G. Reeve, pub. by Thomas McLean, 1831 by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Trolling for Pike in the River Lea, 1831, 1941 by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Epsom Races: Settling Day at Tattersall")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-322526).jpg "The Betting Post, print made by Charles Hunt, 1836 by James Pollard")
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.jpg "North Country Mails at the Peacock, Islington by James Pollard")
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.jpg "White Horse Tavern and Hotel, Fetter Lane, London by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Race for the Great St. Leger Stakes, 1836. Approbation - Off in good Style, 1837 by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Royal Mail Coaches leaving The Swan with Two Necks Inn, Lad Lane, engraved by F. Rosenberg by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The Liverpool and London Royal Mail Coach by James Pollard")
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.jpg "View of the Tollhouse at the Busy Intersection of Kennington Park and Camberwell New Road (Scenes on the Road, or a Trip to Epsom and Back) by John Harris")
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.jpg "Scenes on the Road in the Old Coaching Days by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Easter Monday, 1820 - Epping Forest, Essex by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The Cambridge Telegraph, White Horse, Fetter Lane, London by James Pollard")
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.jpg "North Country Mails at The Peacock, Islington by James Pollard")
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.jpg "A Street Scene with Two Omnibuses by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The Derby Pets: The Winner by James Pollard")
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.jpg "View of Sutton High Street near the Cock Inn (The Cock, at Sutton, Street Views around Epsom, Scenes on the Road, or a Trip to Epsom and Back) by John Harris")
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.jpg "The Mail Coach in a Drift of Snow, engraved by G. Reeves, pub. by J. Watson 21/9/1825 by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Quicksilver Royal Mail Passing the Star and Garter at Kew Bridge by James Pollard")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1172554).jpg "The Four in Hand Club, Hyde Park by James Pollard")
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.jpg "North Country Mails at the Peacock, Islington by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The North Country Mails at the Peacock, Islington by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Highgate Tunnel, engraved by George Hunt, c.1830 by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The Betting Post, Epsom by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Schooling a Pair in a Brake at Lucas")
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.jpg "The Approach to Christmas, engraved by George Hunt by James Pollard")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1090396).jpg "St Albans Tally-Ho Stakes, May 22nd 1834 by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The Derby Pets: The Arrival by James Pollard")
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.jpg "A Mail in Deep Snow, engraved by George Hunt by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Epsom Races: Settling Day at Tattersalls by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Saint Albans Grand Steeple Chase by James Pollard")
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.jpg "A Black Bull Standing by a Cowshed, an Extensive Landscape Beyond by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The Last of the Mail Coaches at Newcastle upon Tyne by James Pollard")
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.jpg "London Fire Engines, engraved by R.G. Reeve, pub. by Thomas McLean, c.1830 by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Epsom Races: The Race Over by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Highgate Archway by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Hunters at Covertside, early 19th century by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The Last of the Mail Coaches at Newcastle upon Tyne by James Pollard")
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.jpg "View of a Street and Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner by John Harris")
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.jpg "The Bath, Bristol and London Royal Mail Coach at night by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Royal Mail Coaches Preparing to Start for the West of England in the Yard of the")
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.jpg "The Elephant and Castle on the Brighton Road by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The Louth-London Royal Mail Travelling by Train from Peterborough East, Northamptonshire by James Pollard")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-433203).jpg "Bottom Fishing near Totten Mill by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The Derby Pets: The Winner by James Pollard")
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.jpg "View of a Busy Street in Front of The Lord Nelson Inn in Cheam by John Harris")
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.jpg "The Mail Coach in a Thunderstorm on Newmarket Heath by James Pollard")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1118217).jpg "Stage Coach Passengers at Breakfast by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Derby Day at Epsom, 1828 by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Schooling a Pair in a Brake at Lucas")
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.jpg "A Mail Coach Passing Travellers on a Road by James Pollard")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1105852).jpg "Fishing Scene by James Pollard")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1131373).jpg "Racehorses Jockeys Up by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Stage Coach Passengers by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The New General Post Office, London by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Easter Monday. 1. Turning out the Stag at Buckits Hill, Epping Forest by James Pollard")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1172385).jpg "Mail Coach by Moonlight by James Pollard")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1115699).jpg "The Norwich Mail Coach in a Thunderstorm on Newmarket Heath by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The Cambridge Coach Leaving Belle Sauvage Yard, Ludgate Hill by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The Royal Union Coach Passing the Alexander Leeds Coach by James Pollard")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-588977).jpg "The Greengrocer by James Pollard")
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.jpg "William IV Driving in Windsor Park by James Pollard")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-202696).jpg "North Country Mails at the Peacock, Islington by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Four in Hand by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The Mail Coach in a Flood by James Pollard")
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_(see_451923_for_pair)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1126440).jpg "Gone Away by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Trout Fishing on the Lea by James Pollard")
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.jpg "London Fire Engines by James Pollard")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1173140).jpg "Stage Coach by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Epsom Races: The Betting Post by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Royal Mail Coaches Leaving the Angel Inn by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The Mail Coach in a Flood by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Hyde Park Corner by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Two sportsmen with their pointers setting out from a cottage, c.1830 by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The Start of the St. Leger, 1830 by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The Derby Pets - The Winner by James Pollard")
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.jpg "Quicksilver Royal Mail Passing the Star and Garter at Kew Bridge by James Pollard")
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.jpg "London Fire Engines, the Noble Protectors of Lives and Property, engraved by R.G. Reeve, published by Thomas McLean by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The Poultry Market by James Pollard")
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.jpg "The new General Post Office by James Pollard")
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