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George Stubbs ARA (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 and Gainsborough. Stubbs' output includes history paintings, but his greatest skill was in painting animals (such ...
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Stubbs's Molly Long-legs with her Jockey (1761–62), a more typical racehorse portrait (101 × 127 cm). Stubbs's knowledge of equine physiology was unsurpassed by any painter; he had studied anatomy at York and, from 1756, he spent 18 months in Lincolnshire where he carried out dissections and experiments on dead horses to better understand the animal's physiology.
George Stubbs (some dates approximate) [2] Lion Attacking a Horse (two versions) Mare and Foals belonging to the 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke; Mare and Foals with an unfigured background; The Marquess of Rockingham's Scrub with John Singleton up; Molly Longlegs with a jockey; Scrub, a horse belonging to the Marquess of Rockingham; Whistlejacket
A painting by British artist George Stubbs is expected to sell for up to £2 million ($2.5 million) in London next week, as it comes to auction for the first time in more than 50 years.. The 18th ...
The 10 life-sized horses have been designed to celebrate the 300th birthday of artist George Stubbs.
The castle contents also included a number of fine paintings, one of which, George Stubbs's 1768 masterpiece "Brood Mares and Foals", subsequently sold at auction in 2010 for £10,121,250, a record price for the British artist. [36]
Shire horses hold the title of the world's largest horse breed. When fully grown, these English draft horses can measure up to 19.2 hands high. One hand equals 4 inches, so that makes Shire horses ...