Horse and Tamer
Introduction
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Horse and Tamer
Image: © Tiger Taken: 11 Jun 2010
This powerful statue was made in 1874 by Sir Joseph Boehm (1834-90), Viennese-born Sculptor in Ordinary to Scotland, and is thought to represent Alexander the Great and his famous steed Bucephalus (or Bucephalas), which only he could control. It was purchased at auction by Captain Oliver Bird (of the custard family) for his garden at Tudor Grange, but he donated it to the Solihull Council in 1945 and it was finally placed in Malvern Park in the Coronation year, 1953. An image of the sculpture formerly appeared as the masthead of the local weekly "Solihull News". Compare with the statue in front of the City Chambers in Edinburgh, of Image, and a modern interpretation of the same subject at Coventry Image Update: In February 2012 metal thieves mutilated the statue by hacking off the horse's tail and part of a leg. These have now been sensitively replaced - see Richard Law's January 2018 photograph Image, which also links to the Grade II listing.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.41094
Longitude
-1.770766