In addition to painting Standardbreds, it is believed Scott painted around 200 portraits of Thoroughbreds, including one of the champion racehorse and sire Lexington. The painting of Lexington now ...

Brooks reimagines the life of the itinerant artist Thomas J. Scott, who rendered the distinguished race horse in the oil painting, Portrait of Lexington, ca. 1857, a work that Smithsonian curator ...

Thomas J. Scott was an itinerant artist and journalist who painted perhaps 200 or more race horse portraits before he died of pneumonia in Lexington's old St. Joseph Hospital in 1888. Scott was a ...