George Stubbs, Painter : Catalogue Raisonne

by Judy Egerton

• ISBN13: 9780300125092
• ISBN10: 0300125097
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-28
• Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre BA

Summary

George Stubbs is one of the greatest of British eighteenth-century painters, with a deep and unaffected sympathy for country life and the English countryside.
This fully illustrated book outlines his career, followed by a catalogue raisonne (the first since Sir Walter Gilbey's short listing of 1898) of all his known works. One of the stickiest labels in the history of British art attached itself to Stubbs as 'Mr Stubbs the horse painter'. Over half of his paintings were of horses, each founded on the pioneering observations assembled (in 1766) in his book The Anatomy of the Horse; but Stubbs's wide-ranging subjects included portraits, conversation pieces and paintings of exotic animals from the Zebra to the Rhinoceros, as well as an extraordinarily sympathetic series of portraits of dogs.

Author Biography

Judy Egerton is the leading authority on Stubbs and worked at both the Tate Britain and National Gallery, London. This catalogue was researched and written during her tenure as Senior Research Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art from 1998 to 2006.

Table of Contents

Birth: Liverpool	p. 9
Stubbs in York	p. 16
Rome: the lion & horse	p. 25
Horkstow: The anatomy of the horse	p. 31
Thoroughbred horses and noble patrons	p. 36
Mares and foals	p. 45
'Animalium pictor'	p. 49
The gentry, their dogs, and horses communing	p. 55
Painting in enamel on copper	p. 62
Stubbs and Josiah Wedgwood	p. 66
Stubbs at work	p. 72
Debts, death and dispersal	p. 90
Catalogue	p. 101
Paintings by Stubbs reliably recorded but now untraced	p. 634
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