George Stubbs And The Wide Creation by National Gallery

About George Stubbs And The Wide Creation

Far more than a celebrated painter of horses, George Stubbs was one of the most significant British artists of the eighteenth century - a master painter and printmaker whose achievement stands alongside William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough. An artist-scientist in the spirit of Leonardo da Vinci, Stubbs combined empirical study with artistic innovation, transforming the representation of animals and the natural world in British art. Born in Liverpool to a tradesman's family, Stubbs was largely self-taught and began his career in provincial obscurity. This compelling biography uncovers the hidden story of his early life - including Jacobite sympathies, Catholic connections, and a previously undocumented wife and family in York.His groundbreaking publication, The Anatomy of the Horse, established his reputation and secured influential patrons across Georgian Britain. Through networks of patronage, politics and intellectual exchange, Stubbs emerges as a figure of extraordinary energy and originality - an artist whose work was shaped by science, literature, classical culture and, above all, close observation of nature.

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