Billie Nipper, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1929
Date of Death: 24-Feb-2016
Profession: scientific illustrator
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Billie Nipper
- Billie Nipper (November 22, 1929 – February 24, 2016) was an American artist who specialized in painting portraits of horses.
- Nipper, a native of Cleveland, Tennessee, painted every horse to win the Tennessee Walking Horse World Grand Championship from 1976 until her death.
- Besides Tennessee Walking Horses, she painted other breeds of horse, as well as landscapes.
- Her paintings were made into prints and transferred onto china and other objects.
- Nipper also bred horses, and her husband and son were horse trainers. Nipper's art was owned by Ronald Reagan and Zsa Zsa Gabor.
- Her paintings are in the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky, and the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in Amarillo, Texas.
- Nipper herself was inducted into the Tennessee Walking Horse Hall of Fame and the Tennessee Agriculture Hall of Fame.
- She died on February 2016.
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