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 Reynolds or Gainsborough. Stubbs' output includes history paintings, but his greatest skill was in painting animals, 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. 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

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, 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 after 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 Knowsley Hall 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 he was self-taught. He had had a passion for

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

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,"Chronology" (p. 12–13), in: ''George Stubbs, 1724–1806''. Tate Gallery Publications;

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. Salem, NH: Salem House, 1985. . Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Tate Gallery, London, 17 October 1984 – 6 January1985, 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

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, 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 the 3rd

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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 the

2nd Marquess of Rockingham Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, (13 May 1730 – 1 July 1782; styled The Hon. Charles Watson-Wentworth before 1733, Viscount Higham between 1733 and 1746, Earl of Malton between 1746 and 1750 and The Marquess of Rocking ...

, 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 1761 to 1776 he exhibited at the Society of Artists of Great Britain, but in 1775 he switched his allegiance to the recently founded but already more prestigious

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. 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,

, 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 Townly 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 University of Paris, 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 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 Lord Shellburne at Hounslow Heath. The earliest work is a life-size painting of ''A Lion Attacking a Horse'' (ca. 1762-63), which was commissioned by the

and now in the

. 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 ''

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'' 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.,

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.,

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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.,

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.,

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

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) 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

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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 Christie's in London in July 2011 for £22.4 million. It was sold by The Woolavington Collection of sporting art at

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, 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 ''The Kongouro from New Holland'' is an oil painting by George Stubbs. Depicting a kangaroo, it is the first painting of an Australian animal in Western Art, along with a painting of a dingo—'' Portrait of a Large Dog''—also by George Stubbs ...

'' and ''

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'' were both painted in 1772. Depicting a

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and a

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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
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, in conjunction with the

, organized the largest exhibition ever devoted to Stubbs (up to that time) in 1984, which travelled to New Haven in 1985.

Gallery

File:George Stubbs, 1759, 'Racehorses Exercising'.jpg, ''Racehorses Exercising at Goodwood'' (1759–60), oil on canvas, 127.5 x 204 cm..

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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.,

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File:George Stubbs 001.jpg, ''Reapers'' (1785), oil on canvas, 90 x 137 cm.,

File:George Stubbs - Haymaking - WGA21948.jpg, ''Haymakers'' (1785), oil on panel, 89.5 x 132.5 cm.,

File:George Stubbs - Bulls Fighting - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Bulls Fighting'' (1786), oil on panel, 61.6 x 82.6 cm.,

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.,

File:George Stubbs 022.jpg, ''Soldiers of the 10th Light Dragoons'' (1793), oil on canvas, 102 x 128 cm., Royal Art Collection

Horses

File:Stubbs - mares and foals in a landscape. 1763-68. Tate Britain..jpg, ''Mares and Foals in a Landscape'' (1763–68), oil on canvas, 102 x 162 cm.,

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.,

File:A Saddled Bay Hunter, by George Stubbs.jpg, ''A Saddled Bay Hunter'' (1786), oil on panel, 48.2 x 57.7 cm.,

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File:Hambletonian.jpg, ''Hambletonian, Rubbing Down'' (1800), oil on canvas, 209 x 367.3 cm.,

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, Mount Stewart

Dogs

File:George Stubbs - The Pointer - WGA21950.jpg, ''The Pointer'' (ca. 1766), oil on canvas, 61 x 70 cm.,

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File:George Stubbs - Water Spaniel - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Water Spaniel'' (1769), oil on canvas, 90.2 x 116.8 cm.,

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.,

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.,

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.,

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.,

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Exotic wildlife

File:George Stubbs - Zebra - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Zebra'' (1763), oil on canvas, 102.9 x 127.6 cm.,

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.,

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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.,

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

George Stubbs - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project

George Stubbs - The Fall of Phaëton, 1777

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National Museums Liverpool National Museums Liverpool, formerly National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, comprises several museums and art galleries in and around Liverpool, England. All the museums and galleries in the group have free admission. The museum is a non ...

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

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich The National Maritime Museum (NMM) is a maritime museum in Greenwich, London. It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich, a network of museums in the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. Like other publicly funded national museums in the Unite ...

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Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery The Hunterian is a complex of museums located in and operated by the University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland. It is the oldest museum in Scotland. It covers the Hunterian Museum, the Hunterian Art Gallery, the Mackintosh House, the Zoology M ...

, University of Glasgow *''The Moose'' (1770) *''The Nilgai'' (1769) *''A Blackbuck'' (1770–1780) ;

Hunterian Museum (London) The Hunterian Museum is a museum of anatomical specimens in London, located in the building of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. History In 1799 the government purchased the collection of the Scottish surgeon John Hunter which they pr ...

*''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) ;

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Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

*''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

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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
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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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stubbs, George 1724 births 1806 deaths 18th-century enamellers 19th-century enamellers 18th-century English male artists 19th-century English male artists 18th-century English painters 19th-century English painters Artists from Liverpool Associates of the Royal Academy English enamellers English male painters Equine artists

Biography

A lion attacking a horse

Legacy

Gallery

Horses

Dogs

Exotic wildlife

List of selected artworks

See also

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