Adriaan van der Hoop’s Trotter ‘De Vlugge’ (The Fast One) in a Meadow

Oberman was one of several Dutch painters who specialized in equine portraiture during the early nineteenth century, a genre that flourished as horse breeding and racing became fashionable among the wealthy. This commission from Adriaan van der Hoop, a wealthy Amsterdam banker and art collector, reflects the intersection of Dutch mercantile wealth and the tradition of animal painting that had flourished since the seventeenth century.