{"id":9736,"date":"2017-04-15T23:18:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T22:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equestrianartists.co.uk\/?p=9736"},"modified":"2017-04-30T23:20:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T22:20:46","slug":"barrie-linklater-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/index.php\/barrie-linklater-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"FOCUS: A tribute to Barrie Linklater SEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9737\" style=\"width: 162px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9737\" class=\"wp-image-9737 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/barrie-linklater.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/barrie-linklater.jpg 152w, https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/barrie-linklater-81x100.jpg 81w, https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/barrie-linklater-121x150.jpg 121w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barrie Linklater<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The art world sadly lost one of the foremost portrait and equestrian artists in March.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His commissions came from Her Majesty the Queen, HRH Duke of Edinburgh, The Ascot Authority, the committee of York Racecourse, The Honourable Artillery Company, Sheik Ahmed-al-Maktoum, the Queen&#8217;s Tennis Club and the City of London.<\/p>\n<p>As a long-standing member of the SEA he was awarded prizes of excellence at several annual exhibitions.<\/p>\n<p>Barrie was an established international artist with many paintings in the Royal Collection and numerous watercolours and drawings in royal ownership.<\/p>\n<p>His first equestrian commission came from HRH Duke of Edinburgh during sittings for a portrait commissioned by the Welsh Guards when Barrie was requested to include his ceremonial horse in the painting. Prince Philip himself then commissioned Barrie to paint The Queen&#8217;s favourite Mares and Foals as his Silver Jubilee present to Her Majesty the Queen. Further details of his life and works are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barrielinklater.co.uk\/\">barrielinklater.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The art world sadly lost one of the foremost portrait and equestrian artists in March. His commissions came from Her Majesty the Queen, HRH Duke of Edinburgh, The Ascot Authority, <br \/><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/index.php\/barrie-linklater-tribute\/\"> Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-9736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-member-focus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9739,"href":"https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736\/revisions\/9739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equestrianartists.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}