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George Stubbs The Third Duke of Portand and his Brother,Lord Edward Bentinck,with Two Horses at a Leaping Bar oil painting


The Third Duke of Portand and his Brother,Lord Edward Bentinck,with Two Horses at a Leaping Bar
Painting ID::  37798 		Artist: George Stubbs
Painting: The Third Duke of Portand and his Brother,Lord Edward Bentinck,with Two Horses at a Leaping Bar
Introduction: sn02 1766-7 Oil on canvas 102.9x127.6
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
George Stubbs Mares and Foals in a River Landscape oil painting


Mares and Foals in a River Landscape
Painting ID::  40590 		Artist: George Stubbs
Painting: Mares and Foals in a River Landscape
Introduction: mk156 1763-68 Oil on canvas
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
George Stubbs A Gentleman Driving a Lady in a Phaeton oil painting


A Gentleman Driving a Lady in a Phaeton
Painting ID::  43304 		Artist: George Stubbs
Painting: A Gentleman Driving a Lady in a Phaeton
Introduction: mk170 1787 Oil on oak 82.5x101.6cm
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
George Stubbs The Milbanke and Melbourne Families oil painting


The Milbanke and Melbourne Families
Painting ID::  43305 		Artist: George Stubbs
Painting: The Milbanke and Melbourne Families
Introduction: mk170 circa 1769 oil on canvas 97.2x149.3cm
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
George Stubbs Lion Devouring a Horse oil painting


Lion Devouring a Horse
Painting ID::  44001 		Artist: George Stubbs
Painting: Lion Devouring a Horse
Introduction: 1763 Oil on canvas, 69 x 104 cm
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
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     1724-1806 George Stubbs Galleries George Stubbs (born in Liverpool on August 25, 1724 ?C died in London July 10, 1806) was a British painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Stubbs was the son of a currier. Information on his life up to age thirty-five is sparse, relying almost entirely on notes made by fellow artist Ozias Humphry towards the end of Stubbs's life. Stubbs was briefly apprenticed to a Lancashire painter and engraver named Hamlet Winstanley, but soon left as he objected to the work of copying to which he was set. Thereafter as an artist he was self-taught. In the 1740s he worked as a portrait painter in the North of England and from about 1745 to 1751 he studied human anatomy at York County Hospital. He had had a passion for anatomy from his childhood, and one of his earliest surviving works is a set of illustrations for a textbook on midwifery which was published in 1751. In 1755 Stubbs visited Italy. Forty years later he told Ozias Humphry that his motive for going to Italy was, "to convince himself that nature was and is always superior to art whether Greek or Roman, and having renewed this conviction he immediately resolved upon returning home". Later in the 1754 he rented a farmhouse in the village of Horkstow,Lincolnshire, and spent 18 months dissecting horses. He moved to London in about 1759 and in 1766 published The anatomy of the Horse. The original drawings are now in the collection of the Royal Academy. Even before his book was published, Stubbs's drawings were seen by leading aristocratic patrons, who recognised that his work was more accurate than that of earlier horse painters such as James Seymour and John Wootton. In 1759 the 3rd Duke of Richmond commissioned three large pictures from him, and his career was soon secure. By 1763 he had produced works for several more dukes and other lords and was able to buy a house in Marylebone, a fashionable part of London, where he lived for the rest of his life. Whistlejacket. National Gallery, London.His most famous work is probably Whistlejacket, a painting of a prancing horse commissioned by the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, which is now in the National Gallery in London. This and two other paintings carried out for Rockingham break with convention in having plain backgrounds. Throughout the 1760s he produced a wide range of individual and group portraits of horses, sometimes accompanied by hounds. He often painted horses with their grooms, whom he always painted as individuals. Meanwhile he also continued to accept commissions for portraits of people, including some group portraits. From 1761 to 1776 he exhibited at the Society of Artists, but in 1775 he switched his allegiance to the recently founded but already more prestigious Royal Academy. Stubbs also painted more exotic animals including lions, tigers, giraffes, monkeys, and rhinoceroses, which he was able to observe in private menageries. He became preoccupied with the theme of a wild horse threatened by a lion and produced several variations on this theme. These and other works became well known at the time through engravings of Stubbs's work, which appeared in increasing numbers in the 1770s and 1780s. Mares and Foals in a Landscape. 1763-68.Stubbs also painted historical pictures, but these are much less well regarded. From the late 1760s he produced some work on enamel. In the 1770s Josiah Wedgwood developed a new and larger type of enamel panel at Stubbs's request. Also in the 1770s he painted single portraits of dogs for the first time, while also receiving an increasing number of commissions to paint hunts with their packs of hounds. He remained active into his old age. In the 1780s he produced a pastoral series called Haymakers and Reapers, and in the early 1790s he enjoyed the patronage of the Prince of Wales, whom he painted on horseback in 1791. His last project, begun in 1795, was A comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body with that of a tiger and a common fowl, engravings from which appeared between 1804 and 1806. Stubbs's son George Townly Stubbs was an engraver and printmaker. . Related Artists to George Stubbs : | David Klocker Ehrenstrahl | Daniel Ridgway Knight | BERRUGUETE, Alonso | NUVOLONE, Panfilo | Mehoffer, Jozef |

 

 

 
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