George Stubbs: Firetail with his Trainer
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George Stubbs was one of Britain’s most innovative artists. Such is the present reputation of his paintings, with their astonishingly convincing renderings of both animals and people, that it is easy to forget how much of his success was based on rigorous scientific observation. In 1756, Stubbs rented a remote ...more
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Illuminating and highly enjoyable biography of Stubbs, which places him in the context of eighteenth-century England. George Stubbs tirelessly studied and explored the natural world, and looked for new ways of representing it. ...more
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A versatile genius whose oeuvre includes paintings, engravings, and detailed anatomical studies, George Stubbs (1724–1806) was fascinated by horses. This handsome book presents for the first time the wide range of his equine imagery, from refined portraits of racehorses to violent scenes of horses attacked by lions in the wild. ...more
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The reputation of George Stubbs has undergone profound changes over the two centuries since his death. Once neglected as 'only' an animal painter, more recent interpretations have stressed the social content and context of his art, revealing a figure whose work embodies complex attitudes towards upper-class sporting activities, the rural ...more
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George Stubbs was one of the most original artists Britain ever produced. His extraordinary dedication to accuracy impelled him to spend 18 solitary months dissecting and drawing horses to make his landmark study, The Anatomy of the Horse. His portraits of people and animals combine an unflinchingly accurate gaze with ...more
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George Stubbs (1724-1806) is now rightly recognised as one of the greatest and most original artists of the eighteenth century. His profound understanding of anatomy and his uncanny ability to translate the study of nature into remarkably balanced compositions mark him out from other practitioners in the field of animal ...more
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Known in his life as "Mr. Stubbs the horse painter", it is only in the last fifty years that the art world has rejected this derogatory assessment of this versatile painter, illustrator, engraver, and outstanding chronicler of nature. Lavish illustrations - covering the full range of his work from the ...more
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