George Stubbs The Grosvenor Hunt Painting ID:: 3725 George Stubbs1.jpg
The Grosvenor Hunt Grosvenor Estate, London
George Stubbs A Horse Frightened by a Lion Painting ID:: 3727 George Stubbs3.jpg
A Horse Frightened by a Lion 1770
Tate Gallery, London
George Stubbs Mares and Foais in a Landscape (nn03) Painting ID:: 23504 new8/George Stubbs-422389.jpg
Mares and Foais in a Landscape (nn03) 1763-8
Oil on canvas
99.1 x 158.8 cm 39 x 62 1/2 in Tate Gallery London
George Stubbs Self-Portrait on a White Hunter Painting ID:: 26955 new2/George Stubbs-389794.jpg
Self-Portrait on a White Hunter mk52
1782
Enamel on Wedgwood biscuit earthenware
93x71cm
Lady Lever Art Gallery,Port Sunlight
George Stubbs Horse Frightened by a lion Painting ID:: 32821 new9/George Stubbs-645933.jpg
Horse Frightened by a lion mk81
1763
George Stubbs Otho,with JOhn Larkin up Painting ID:: 32834 new9/George Stubbs-352266.jpg
Otho,with JOhn Larkin up mk81
1768
George Stubbs Molly Longlegs with Jockey Painting ID:: 33820 new9/George Stubbs-799373.jpg
Molly Longlegs with Jockey mk86
c.1761/62
Oil on canvas
102x127cm
Liverpool
Walker Art Gallery
George Stubbs Foxhounds in a Landscape Painting ID:: 37597 new11/George Stubbs-288985.jpg
Foxhounds in a Landscape mk127
23x32
George Stubbs A Zebra Painting ID:: 37639 new11/George Stubbs-454243.jpg
A Zebra mk127
22x28
George Stubbs Dog Painting ID:: 37773 new11/George Stubbs-497798.jpg
Dog sn02
Oil on canvas
Picture Library,
London
George Stubbs Some Dogs Painting ID:: 37774 new11/George Stubbs-994484.jpg
Some Dogs sn02
Oil on canvas
George Stubbs Dog Painting ID:: 37775 new11/George Stubbs-367924.jpg
Dog sn02
Oil on canvas
George Stubbs Horse Painting ID:: 37776 new11/George Stubbs-634845.jpg
Horse sn02
Oil on canvas
George Stubbs Monkey Painting ID:: 37777 new11/George Stubbs-944876.jpg
Monkey sn02
George Stubbs A Couple of Foxhounds Painting ID:: 37778 new11/George Stubbs-646737.jpg
A Couple of Foxhounds sn02
1792
Oil on canvas
101.6x127
George Stubbs Mother and Child Painting ID:: 37779 new11/George Stubbs-622834.jpg
Mother and Child sn02
1772
30.5x30.5
George Stubbs Soldiers of the 10th Light Dragoons Painting ID:: 37795 new11/George Stubbs-542558.jpg
Soldiers of the 10th Light Dragoons sn02
1793
Oil on canvas
102.2x127.9
George Stubbs Yak Painting ID:: 37796 new11/George Stubbs-223332.jpg
Yak sn02
1791
Oil on canvas
London
George Stubbs Cheetah and Stag with Two Indians Painting ID:: 37797 new11/George Stubbs-375224.jpg
Cheetah and Stag with Two Indians sn02
1765
Oil on canvas
180.7x273.3
George Stubbs The Third Duke of Portand and his Brother,Lord Edward Bentinck,with Two Horses at a Leaping Bar Painting ID:: 37798 new11/George Stubbs-528237.jpg
The Third Duke of Portand and his Brother,Lord Edward Bentinck,with Two Horses at a Leaping Bar sn02
1766-7
Oil on canvas
102.9x127.6
George Stubbs Mares and Foals in a River Landscape Painting ID:: 40590 new16/George Stubbs-493654.jpg
Mares and Foals in a River Landscape mk156
1763-68
Oil on canvas
George Stubbs A Gentleman Driving a Lady in a Phaeton Painting ID:: 43304 new16/George Stubbs-572938.jpg
A Gentleman Driving a Lady in a Phaeton mk170
1787
Oil on oak
82.5x101.6cm
George Stubbs The Milbanke and Melbourne Families Painting ID:: 43305 new16/George Stubbs-622259.jpg
The Milbanke and Melbourne Families mk170
circa 1769
oil on canvas
97.2x149.3cm
George Stubbs Lion Devouring a Horse Painting ID:: 44001 new16/George Stubbs-747366.jpg
Lion Devouring a Horse 1763
Oil on canvas,
69 x 104 cm
George Stubbs Whistlejacket Painting ID:: 45819 new17/George Stubbs-269453.jpg
Whistlejacket mk178
1762
oils on linen
292x246.4cm
George Stubbs Whistlejacket Painting ID:: 45889 new17/George Stubbs-786628.jpg
Whistlejacket mk178
1762 oils on linen 292x246.4cm London, The nationally Gallery
George Stubbs Mambrino Painting ID:: 45901 new17/George Stubbs-583663.jpg
Mambrino mk178
around 1790 oils on linen 88x117cm
George Stubbs Lustre hero by a Groom Painting ID:: 45906 new17/George Stubbs-852739.jpg
Lustre hero by a Groom mk178
around 1760-1762 oil on linen 101.9x127cm
George Stubbs Bay time tone with John Singleton Up Painting ID:: 45907 new17/George Stubbs-839948.jpg
Bay time tone with John Singleton Up mk178
around 1767
oils on Leiwand
101.6x127cm
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.