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| Occupation | Horse portraitist/artist, horse breeder |
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| Discipline | Performance Tennessee Walking Horse |
| Born | November 22, 1929 Cleveland, Tennessee |
| Died | February 24, 2016 (aged 86) Cleveland, Tennessee |
| Lifetime achievements | Inducted into Tennessee Walking Horse Hall of Fame and Tennessee Agriculture Hall of Fame |
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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 that won 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 in February 2016.