George Stubbs, painter : catalogue raisonné /

"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...

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Online Access: Table of contents
Author / Contributor: Egerton, Judy
Imprint: New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, c2007.
Format: Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Birth : Liverpool
  • Stubbs in York
  • Rome : the lion & horse
  • Horkstow : The anatomy of the horse
  • Thoroughbred horses and noble patrons
  • Mares and foals
  • 'Animalium pictor'
  • The gentry, their dogs, and horses communing
  • Painting in enamel on copper
  • Stubbs and Josiah Wedgwood
  • Debts, death and dispersal
  • Catalogue.