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Frederick William Elwell Ernest Payne
In these great days of circus the horse really ruled everything both in the ring with great equestrian routines but also other horse stock would pull the loads from one town to another.
Perhaps after 1930 more motor vehicles would be used. The big circuses toured upward of 100 horses, all had to be cleaned and fed and the stable department would engage a huge number of staff. This painting is of the large Lord George Sangers Circus and dated 1923.
(I could highly recommend a fine book about the Sanger family and their great history, read: ‘The Sanger Story’ by George Sanger Colman (1956).
This truly great painting shows the interia of Lord George Sanger’s touring show and the year was 1923. What a wonderful atmosphere of life and colour.
Here we see Sanger’s circus pitched at Bury St Edmunds during 1930. The painting is by Ernest Payne.
