[1] At age 20 he emigrated to the West Indies, and later on to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was an employed artist of Sartain's Magazine.

[2] In 1869, Troye moved his family to a 700-acre (2.8 km2) cotton plantation in Madison County, Alabama.

Troye returned to Kentucky and resided at the home of longtime friend Keen Richards until his death from pneumonia on July 25, 1874.

[1] Troye's best works, between the years 1835 and 1874 (prior to the birth of photography), are true-to-life delineations of historical American Great Plains horses.

He painted Southern United States pre-American Civil War thoroughbreds.