Herbert Haseltine

Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a horse's head
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a horse's head
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a horse's head
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a horse's head
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a horse's head
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a horse's head
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a horse's head

Herbert Haseltine (American, 1877-1962)
Sudbourne Premier: Suffolk Punch Stallion, 1927
Bronze, dark brown patina, parcel gilding
10 ½ H. x 11 ½ W. x 6 ½ D. inches
Signed left side: © HASELTINE / MCMXXVII
Mounted atop two-tier burgundy marble base, 5 ¾ H. inches
Overall height: 13 ¾ inches

Alt text: Bronze sculpture of two poodles
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of two poodles
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of two poodles
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of two poodles
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of two poodles
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of two poodles
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of two poodles
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of two poodles, detail
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of two poodles, detail
Alt text: Bronze sculpture signature detail
Alt text: Bronze sculpture underside

Herbert H. Haseltine (American, 1877-1962)
Nora & Sheila, cast in 1945
Bronze, green and brown patina
9 H. x 16 ⅝ W. x 4 ¼ D. inches
Signed on base: © H. H. Haseltine / 1945
Gilded collars inscribed: Nora / Sheila
Mounted to period black Belgian marble base: 2 H. inches
Overall height: 11 inches

Provenance:
The artist
Mrs. Vincent Astor, 1944
Collection of Barbara Walters, New York
Estate of Barbara Walters, 2023

Exhibited:
Wildenstein & Co., New York, The Sculpture of Herbert Haseltine, 1944, plaster model loaned by Mrs. Vincent Astor

Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a pig
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a pig
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a pig
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a pig
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a pig
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a pig
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a pig

Herbert Haseltine (American, 1877-1962)
Middle White Sow (Wharfedale Royal Lady), 1925
Polished bronze with opaque ochre patina
4 ⅛ H. x 8 ⅛ W. x 3 ⅝ D. inches
Period speckled Belgian marble base:
1 ½ H. x 7 W. x 3 D. inches
Overall height: 5 ⅝ inches

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Herbert Haseltine (American, 1877–1962)
Southdown Ewe, 1933
Gilt bronze and brown patina
7 ½ H.  x 10 ⅜ W. x 4 ½ D. inches
Mounted on original marble base
2 H.  x 9 W.  x 4 ½ D., inches
Titled on front of base:  SOUTHDOWN
Signed rear of  base: © HASELTINE / MCMXXXII

 

Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a bull
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a bull
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a bull
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a bull
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a bull
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a bull
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a bull
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a bull
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a bull
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a bull
Alt text: Bronze sculpture of a bull
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Alt text: Bronze sculpture, base inscription detail

Herbert Haseltine (American, 1877-1962)
Shorthorn Bull: Bridgebank Paymaster, 1933
Bronze, burgundy brown patina, parcel gilding
10 ½ H. x 13 ⅝ W. x 4 ⅞ D. inches
Mounted on variegated burgundy marble base, 2 H. inches
Inscribed on front base: SHORTHORN
Inscribed on rear base: © HASELTINE / MCMXXXIII


Artist Biography

Born in Rome, then still Lazio and not part of Italy as such, the son of the wealthy American landscape painter William Stanley Haseltine (1835–1900) who was associated with the Hudson River School and Luminism, he studied at Harvard University. After graduating in 1899, Haseltine went to Munich Academy in Germany to study drawing and then to the Académie Julian in Paris, France where he studied painting.

After his first piece of sculpture met with success, he pursued that artistic avenue. Inspired by the gathering of artists from around the world to the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, Haseltine chose to make Paris his home for the next thirty-five years until the German occupation of France during World War II. He moved to the United States where he remained until 1947 at which time he returned to France.

Equestrian statue of Sir John Dill statue at Arlington National Cemetery by Haseltine.
In 1940 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1946.

Haseltine sculpted a variety of animals but is best known for his equestrian sculptures, most notably the 1934 life-size statue of the thoroughbred race horse Man o’ War at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky and “George Washington on Horseback”, Gilded bronze statue at the Washington National Cathedral made in 1959. He also traveled to India, where he made an oversized statue of one of the ancestors of the Maharaja of Nawanagar, Jam Shri Rawalji in 1933. It can still be seen there. He replicated many of his large works in table-top sizes. The author of a number of books on animalier art, Haseltine was well connected in American upper class society and did a three-year project to create a work for heiress Barbara Hutton. This project included two horses heads which were gilded bronze, with precious and semi precious stones. After her death the heads disappeared and resurfaced a few years ago at an auction in New York.