George Stubbs (25 August 1724 – 10 July 1806) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such as

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and

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. Stubbs' output includes history paintings, but his greatest skill was in painting animals (such as horses, dogs and lions), perhaps influenced by his love and study of anatomy. His series of paintings on the theme of a lion attacking a horse are early and significant examples of the Romantic movement that emerged in the late 18th century. He enjoyed

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patronage. His painting ''

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'' hangs in the

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Biography

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Stubbs was born in

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, the son of a

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, or leather-dresser, John Stubbs, and his wife Mary. Egerton, Judy (2007).
George Stubbs, Painter: Catalogue raisonné
'. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. . p. 10. Information on his life until the age of 35 or so is sparse, relying almost entirely on notes made by Ozias Humphry, a fellow artist and friend; Humphry's informal memoir, which was not intended for publication, was based on a series of private conversations he had with Stubbs around 1794, when Stubbs was 70 years old, and Humphry 52. Stubbs worked at his father's trade until the age of 15 or 16, at which point he told his father that he wished to become a painter.Egerton (2007), p. 12
While initially resistant, Stubbs's father (who died not long afterward in 1741), eventually acquiesced in his son's choice of a career path, on the condition that he could find an appropriate mentor. Stubbs subsequently approached the Lancashire painter and engraver Hamlet Winstanley, and was briefly engaged by him in a sort of apprenticeship relationship, probably not more than several weeks in duration.Egerton (2007), p. 13
Having initially demonstrated his abilities and agreed to do some copying work, Stubbs had access to and opportunity to study the collection at

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near Liverpool, the estate where Winstanley was then residing; however, he soon left when he came into conflict with the older artist over exactly which pictures he could work on copying. Thereafter, as an artist Stubbs was self-taught. He had had a passion for

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from his childhood, and in or around 1744, he moved to

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, in the

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, to pursue his ambition to study the subject under experts. In York, from 1745 to 1753, he worked as a portrait painter, and studied human anatomy under the surgeon Charles Atkinson, at York County Hospital,"Chronology" (p. 12–13), in: ''George Stubbs, 1724–1806''. Tate Gallery Publications; Yale Center for British Art. Salem, NH: Salem House, 1985. . Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Tate Gallery, London, 17 October 1984 – 6 January 1985, and at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., 13 February – 7 April 1985; paintings for the exhibition selected by Judy Egerton, Assistant Keeper of the British Collection (Foreword). One of his earliest surviving works is a set of illustrations for a textbook on

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by John Burton, ''Essay towards a Complete New System of Midwifery'', published in 1751. In 1754 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". In 1756 he rented a farmhouse in the village of Horkstow, Lincolnshire, and spent 18 months dissecting horses, assisted by his common-law wife, Mary Spencer. 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

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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, Peter Tillemans and John Wootton. In 1759 Charles Lennox, 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

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, a fashionable part of London, where he lived for the rest of his life. A famous work, ''

'', a painting of the thoroughbred race horse rising on his hind legs, commissioned by

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, is now in the

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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 the inaugural Exhibition of 1761 onwards he exhibited at the Society of Artists of Great Britain at Spring Gardens, but in 1775 he switched his allegiance to the recently founded but already more prestigious

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. He served as President of the Society of Artists for a year from October 1772, when it was already beset by financial problems and defections to the Royal Academy. Stubbs also painted more exotic animals including lions, tigers, giraffes, monkeys, and rhinoceroses, which he was able to observe in private menageries. His painting of a kangaroo was the first glimpse of this animal for many 18th-century Britons. 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

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s of Stubbs's work, which appeared in increasing numbers in the 1770s and 1780s. 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

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developed a new and larger type of enamel panel at Stubbs's request. Stubbs hoped to achieve commercial success with his paintings in enamel, but the venture left him in debt. 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

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series called '' Haymakers'' and ''Reapers'', and in the early 1790s he enjoyed the patronage of the

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, 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'', fifteen engravings from which appeared between 1804 and 1806. The project was left unfinished upon Stubbs's death. He died at the age of 81 on 10 July 1806 at the home he had lived in since 1763, No.24 Somerset Street, near Portman Square, Marylebone, central London. He was buried on 18 July in the graveyard of

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, now a garden of rest. Stubbs's son George Townley Stubbs was an engraver and printmaker.

A lion attacking a horse

Stubbs began an informal series of works on the subject of a lion attacking a horse around 1762 or 1763, and he continued to explore and reinterpret the theme in at least 17 images over a period of about 30 years. These paintings are among his most celebrated and influential works.Egerton, Judy. 1984. ''George Stubbs 1724-1806''. Tate Gallery Publications. Milbank, London. 248 pp. One art historian wrote "The appearance of the monumental picture now in the Mellon Collection 'A Lion Attacking a Horse'', ca. 1762-63must be treated as one of the outstanding events in English eighteenth-century art for within the context of painting at that date its singularity as well as its inherent originality is most striking. Not since the publication of Hogarth's Harlot's Progress thirty years before had there occurred such an innovation."Taylor, Basil. 1965. ''George Stubbs: "The Lion and the Horse" Theme''. The Burlington Magazine, 107 (743): 81-87 The iconic paintings are in fact among the earliest manifestations of

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in painting, predating the work of more familiar masters of the movement such as

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, William Turner, and

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, who was known to be an admirer of both horses, and the work of George Stubbs.Janson, H. W. 1977. ''History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts from the Dawn of History to the Present Day'' (2nd, edition). Harry N. Abrams, Inc., publishers. New York, 767 pp. Claudon, Francis. 1980. ''The Concise Encyclopedia of Romanticism''. Chartwell Books, Inc. Secaucus, New Jersey. 304 pp. Jean Clay, professor of art history at the

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, perceptively observed that not only does the energy and terror of the animals foreshadow the spirit of romanticism but, as Stubbs's series progressed, the horror seemed to diffuse and expand throughout the whole of the landscape: "an image that would fertilize the Romantic imagination and come to full flower a half-century later."Clay, Jean. 1980. ''Roamanticism''. Chartwell Books, Inc. Secaucus, New Jersey. 320 pp. The series are mostly oil paintings on canvas, but also include examples of enamel on copper, original engravings, and even a relief model in

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clay. The white horse was painted from one of the Kings Horses in the Royal Mews, secured for the artist by an architect friend, Mr. Payne. Stubbs was able to study a lion in life that was in the menagerie of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne at

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. The earliest work is a life-size painting of ''A Lion Attacking a Horse'' (ca. 1762–63), which was commissioned by the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham and now in the Yale Center for British Art. Art historian Basil Taylor postulated the theme was treated in three distinct episodes: Episode A, a lion prowling at some distance from a terrified horse; Episode B, a lion close to a terrified horse; Episode C a lion on the horse's back biting its flank. Interestingly, Stubbs first painted "Episode C", and it was not until later that he was inspired to go back and paint the moments leading up to the climatic event. An anecdote regarding the origin of the subject matter emerged soon after the artist death, originally published in '' The Sporting Magazine'' in 1808, and reiterate often for well over a century and a half. Art historian H. W. Janson repeated it "On a visit to North Africa, he had seen a horse killed by a lion; this experience haunted his imagination, and from it he developed a new type of animal picture full of Romantic feeling for the grandeur and violence of nature." However, research published in 1965 produced a rather persuasive argument that Stubbs in fact never traveled to Africa, and the actual inspiration for the painting was an antique sculpture he had seen in a well documented 1754 stay in Rome. The sculpture, ''Lion Seizing a Horse'', in the

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, Rome, is a restored Roman copy of a

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original. It has been a celebrated work since the Renaissance, admired by

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, included in guidebooks of Stubbs's day, and copied any number of times by various artist in marble, bronze, and prints, including an 18th-century marble copy in the collection of Stubbs's patron Henry Blundell, who also acquired one of the paintings by Stubbs. File:George Stubbs - A Lion Attacking a Horse - Google Art Project.jpg, ''A Lion Attacking a Horse'' (ca. 1762–63), oil on canvas, 243.8 x 332.7 cm., Yale Center for British Art File:George Stubbs - Horse Devoured by a Lion - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Horse Devoured by a Lion'' (1763), oil on canvas, 69.2 x 103.5 cm., Tate Britain File:George Stubbs - Horse Frightened by a Lion - Google Art Project (2416309).jpg, ''Horse Frightened by a Lion'' (ca. 1763 -1768), oil on canvas, 70.5 x 104.1 cm., Yale Center for British Art File:George Stubbs 005.jpg, ''A Lion Attacking a Horse'' (1765) oil on canvas, 69 x 100.1 cm.,

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File:George Stubbs - A Lion Attacking a Horse - 1955.27.1 - Yale University Art Gallery.jpg, ''A Lion Attacking a Horse'' (1770), oil on canvas, 38 in. x 49 1/2in., Yale Center for British Art

Legacy

Stubbs remained a secondary figure in British art until the mid-twentieth century. The art historian Basil Taylor and art collector

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both championed Stubbs's work. Stubbs's ''Pumpkin with a Stable-lad'' was the first painting that Mellon bought in 1936. Basil Taylor was commissioned in 1955 by Pelican Press to write the book ''Animal Painting in England – From Barlow to Landseer'', which included a large segment on Stubbs. In 1959 Mellon and Taylor first met and bonded over their appreciation of Stubbs. This led Mellon to create the Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art (the predecessor of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) with Taylor as the director. Mellon eventually amassed the largest collection of Stubbs paintings in the world which would become a part of his larger collection of British art that would become the Yale Center for British Art in

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, USA. In 1971, Taylor published the seminal catalogue, ''Stubbs''. The record price for a Stubbs painting was set by the sale at auction of ''Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath, with a Trainer, a Stable-Lad, and a Jockey'' (1765) at

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in London in July 2011 for £22.4 million. It was sold by the Woolavington Collection of sporting art at Cottesbrooke Hall, Northamptonshire; the buyer was unidentified. The

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of the British royal family holds 16 paintings by Stubbs. Two paintings by Stubbs were bought by the

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, London after a public appeal to raise the £1.5 million required. The two paintings, '' The Kongouro from New Holland'' and '' Portrait of a Large Dog'' were both painted in 1772. Depicting a

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and a dingo respectively, they are the first depictions of Australian animals in Western art. His work was shown in a retrospective exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, 27 February – 7 April 1957.Whitechapel Gallery
/ref> Tate Britain, in conjunction with the Yale Center for British Art, organized the largest exhibition ever devoted to Stubbs (up to that time) in 1984, which travelled to New Haven in 1985.

In popular culture

A fictional painting by Stubbs plays a key role in the Robert Galbraith novel Lethal White. Anthony Jennings' 2024 novel ''Mister Stubbs'' explores the painter's early years, focusing on his time in York during Bonnie Prince Charlie's rebellion of 1745, and his mysterious trip to Rome, where Bonnie Prince Charlie's father, the exiled Jacobite James Edward Stuart, had his court.

Gallery

File:George Stubbs, 1759, 'Racehorses Exercising'.jpg, ''Racehorses Exercising at Goodwood'' (1759–60), oil on canvas, 127.5 x 204 cm.. Goodwood House File:George Stubbs (1724-1806) - Joseph Smyth Esquire, Lieutenant of Whittlebury Forest, Northamptonshire, on a Dapple Grey Horse - PD.95-1992 - Fitzwilliam Museum.jpg, ''Joseph Smyth Esq, Lieutenant of Whittlebury Forest, Northamptonshire, on a Dapple Grey Horse'' (1762–64), oil on canvas, 64.2 x 76.8 cm.,

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File:George Stubbs, English - Hound Coursing a Stag - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Hound Coursing a Stag'' (ca. 1762), oil on canvas, 100.1 x 125.8 cm.,

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File:George Stubbs 009.jpg, ''Cheetah and Stag with Two Indians'' (ca. 1765), oil on canvas, 182.7 x 275.3 cm.,

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File:Captain Samuel Sharpe Pocklington with His Wife, Pleasance, and possibly His Sister, Frances SC-000760.jpg, ''Captain Samuel Sharpe Pocklington with His Wife, Pleasance, and possibly His Sister, Frances'' (1769), oil on canvas, 100.2 x 126.6 cm., National Gallery of Art File:George Stubbs 001.jpg, ''Reapers'' (1785), oil on canvas, 90 x 137 cm., Tate Britain File:George Stubbs - Haymaking - WGA21948.jpg, '' Haymakers'' (1785), oil on panel, 89.5 x 132.5 cm., Tate Britain File:George Stubbs - Bulls Fighting - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Bulls Fighting'' (1786), oil on panel, 61.6 x 82.6 cm., Yale Center for British Art File:George Stubbs - The Farmer's Wife and the Raven - Google Art Project.jpg, ''The Farmer's Wife and the Raven'' (1786), oil on millboard, 67.3 x 97.8 cm., Yale Center for British Art File:George Stubbs - The Lincolnshire Ox - Google Art Project.jpg, '' The Lincolnshire Ox'' (1790) File:George Stubbs (1724-1806) - Soldiers of the 10th Light Dragoons - RCIN 400512 - Royal Collection.jpg, ''Soldiers of the 10th Light Dragoons'' (1793), oil on canvas, 102 x 128 cm.,

Horses

File:George Stubbs (1724-1806) - Mares and Foals in a River Landscape - T00295 - Tate.jpg, ''Mares and Foals in a Landscape'' (1763–68), oil on canvas, 102 x 162 cm., Tate Britain File:The Third Duke of Dorset's Hunter with a Groom and a Dog MET DP164858.jpg, ''The Third Duke of Dorset's Hunter with a Groom and a Dog'' (1768), oil on canvas, 101.6 x 126.4 cm.,

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File:George Stubbs (1724-1806) - Horse in the Shade of a Wood - N04696 - National Gallery.jpg, ''Horse in the Shade of a Wood'' (1780). 76.2 x 59.7 cm., Tate Britain/

File:A Saddled Bay Hunter, by George Stubbs.jpg, ''A Saddled Bay Hunter'' (1786), oil on panel, 48.2 x 57.7 cm., Denver Art Museum File:Hambletonian.jpg, ''Hambletonian, Rubbing Down'' (1800), oil on canvas, 209 x 367.3 cm.,

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Dogs

File:George Stubbs - The Pointer - WGA21950.jpg, ''The Pointer'' (ca. 1766), oil on canvas, 61 x 70 cm., Neue Pinakothek File:George Stubbs - Water Spaniel - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Water Spaniel'' (1769), oil on canvas, 90.2 x 116.8 cm., Yale Center for British Art File:George Stubbs - Brown and White Norfolk or Water Spaniel - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Brown and White Norfolk or Water Spaniel'' (1778), oil on panel, 80.6 x 97.2 cm., Yale Center for British Art File:George Stubbs, White Poodle in a Punt, c. 1780, NGA 110281.jpg, ''White Poodle in a Punt'' (ca. 1780), oil on canvas, 127 x 101.5 cm., National Gallery of Art File:George Stubbs (1724-1806) - A Couple of Foxhounds - T01705 - Tate.jpg, ''A Couple of Foxhounds'' (1792), oil on canvas, 127 x 101.6 cm., Tate Britain File:Black and White Spaniel Following a Scent by George Stubbs.jpg, ''Black and White Spaniel Following a Scent'' (1793), oil on canvas, 25 x 30 in., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Exotic wildlife

File:George Stubbs - Zebra - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Zebra'' (1763), oil on canvas, 102.9 x 127.6 cm., Yale Center for British Art File:Moose (1770), oil on canvas, 61 x 70.5 cm., Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow.jpg, The Moose (1770), oil on canvas, 61 x 70.5 cm., Hunterian Art Gallery File:Two Leopards by George Stubbs, c. 1776.jpg, ''Two Leopards'' (c. 1776), oil on panel, 90.5 x 137.4 cm., private collection File:George Stubbs - Greenland Falcon - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Greenland Falcon'' (1780), oil on panel, 81.3 x 99.1 cm., Yale Center for British Art File:Rhinoceros (ca. 1780-91), oil on canvas, 69.9 x 92.7 cm., private collection.jpg, ''Rhinoceros'' (ca. 1780–91), oil on canvas, 69.9 x 92.7 cm., private collection File:George Stubbs - A Monkey - Google Art Project.jpg, ''The Monkey'' (1799), oil on canvas, 70 x 55.9 cm.,

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List of selected artworks

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'' (1762) *''A Gentleman driving a Lady in a Phaeton'' (1787) *''The Milbanke and Melbourne Families'' (c.1769) ;In the

, Greenwich *'' The Kongouro from New Holland'' (1772) *'' Portrait of a Large Dog'' (1772) ; Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow *''The Moose'' (1770) *''The Nilgai'' (1769) *''A Blackbuck'' (1770–1780) ; Hunterian Museum (London) *''The Yak of Tartary '' (1791) *''Rhinoceros'' (1790–1792) *''Drill and Albino Baboon'' (before 1789) ; British Sporting Art Trust *''A Pointer (a pair)'' *''A Spaniel (a pair)'' *''Lord Clanbrassil with Hunter Mowbrary'' (1769) *''Fighting Stallions'' (1791) ;

* '' British racehorse "Hambletonian" ; National Gallery of Art, Washington *
Captain Samuel Sharpe Pocklington with His Wife, Pleasance, and possibly His Sister, Frances
' (1769)

(c. 1780) ;

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*''Goose with Outspread Wings'' *''Lions and a Lioness with a Rocky Background'' (1776) * The Portland Collection
The 3rd Duke of Portland on horseback at Welbeck Abbey
* William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland and his younger brother Lord Edward

References

External links

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(Artcyclopedia)
George Stubbs – a celebration
(

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George Stubbs
(Encyclopedia of Irish and World Art)

(Mezzo Mundo Fine Art)
Paintings by George Stubbs
( Tate Gallery)
Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections

Selected images from ''Anatomy of the Horse''
From The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library
Judy Egerton archive
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