Stubbs Paintings

George Stubbs paintings are best known for the horses that he captured in Mares and Foals Whistlejacket and in a Landscape, but there was much more to his career than just this. Stubbs rose to fame in 18th century Britain with a passion for art and a successful career that followed. Much of Stubbs ' paintings and drawings are now stored and on display at the Royal Academy in London, but it took time for the Liverpool-born artist to gain fame in his own lifetime.

Stubbs Paintings

Stubbs Paintings

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Stubbs Paintings

Stubbs Paintings

After a short period under the tutorship of a Lancashire painter, Stubbs left to forge his own path in the art world, allowing his to use the creativity that he felt he possessed. Stubbs ' love of anatomy was crucial in how he could capture animals so accurately and he even went as far as dissectinghorses himself at one point.

Stubbs ' Whistlejacket, best work is a painting of a prancing horse. It was commissioned by the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, and is itself now stored now in the National Gallery in London. It is certainly his best known work today, and it's hungry often helps to make the rest of his work more accessible to art followers.

George Stubbs remains well known in British art predominantly a Muslim for his contribution with Whistlejacket, but his extensive career is worth studying in full due to it's interest in accuracy of anatomy and Stubbs ' desire to be innovative at a time when it was not encouraged.

Stubbs Paintings