George Stubbs
George Stubbs , born the August 25th 1724 with Liverpool, dead the July 10th 1806 with London, is an animalist painter of the 18th century.
Called “the painter of the horses”, it carried out Whistlejacket , a very famous work ordered by the Marchioness of Rockingham.
Its works are of varied nature (portraits, historical painting, tables of hunting, animalist painting…). They are original and meticulous.
Apprentice of the engraver Hamlet Winstanley, it is tiny room to the function of copier. Impassioned by the anatomy, it goes to the hospital York of 1745 to 1751 and famous of the handbooks of medicine.
It goes on then journeys to check its assumption, according to which nature would be higher than Article.
In 1759 it settles has London and publishes the anatomy of the horse in 1766.
Stubbs is a painter very appreciated for direction of the observation and the detail. Its paintings of horses are famous, and that thanks to its perfect knowledge of the morphology of the horse (due inter alia to the dissections which it carried out during nearly 18 months).