National Gallery

Your Paintings is now Art UK. Art UK is the online home for art from every public collection in the UK and features over 200,000 artworks including 'Whistlejacket' by George Stubbs. Explore more of our artworks on their new website here: http://bit.ly/21nR6eg

Stubbs died on this day in 1806. Having studied anatomy, his pictures of horses are among the most accurate ever painted. 'Whistlejacket' hangs in room 34: http://bit.ly/1IEdKIm

Yale University


George Stubbs' "Zebra" — one of the Yale Center for British Art's most iconic works — has crossed the street to hang in the Yale University Art Gallery, along with hundreds of other Romantic-era treasures. While this may be their largest joint exhibition, it is just one example in a long history of collaboration.



Yale University Art Gallery


If you've been to the Gallery lately, you've surely noticed the large lion and horse in our lobby! It's a painting by George Stubbs on loan from the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) and a harbinger of grand things to come. The first major collaborative exhibition between the YCBA and the Gallery opens March 6th. "The Critique of Reason: Romantic Art, 1760-1860" will occupy the entire fourth floor of the Gallery and include works by Stubbs, Goya, Turner, Gericault, and many more artists of the period. Stay tuned!























Although the horses and bulls start heading home this weekend following the close of the Fort Worth Stock Show, our beautiful Stubbs oil painting of an Arabian stallion will remain on view in the Kahn Building south gallery! Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo

English artist George Stubbs was born ‪#‎onthisday‬ in 1724, famous for his paintings of animals http://ow.ly/ABcaz

George Stubbs, an engraving from The Anatomy of the Horse

Published in London, England, AD 1766

The famous painter of animals establishes his credentials

This engraving is a plate from George Stubb's The Anatomy of the Horse. It was the first anatomical study of the horse since Carlo Ruini's Dell Anatomia et dell' Infirmita del Cavallo (1598) published over 160 years previously. Stubbs' engravings were far more precise and detailed than Ruini's schematic woodcuts.

Stubbs was both scientist and artist. He dissected the horse himself, with the aid of Mary Spencer, his partner, in an isolated Lincolnshire farmhouse. As he stripped away the muscles, he made detailed drawings of what he saw. Then, in London, he showed the drawings to engravers experienced in anatomical subjects. They found them difficult to interpret, so Stubbs decided to make the engravings himself. The difficulty that he faced was to show clearly the different textures of vein, muscle and bone using a medium that is essentially 'linear'. He succeeded so well that for over a century the book was the principal guide for veterinarians as well as painters. It also shows the incredible knowledge of his subject that stands at the core of his practice as a painter.

The print shows the side view of the first stage of dissection with just the skin removed.

A. Griffiths, Prints and printmaking: an int, 2nd edition (London, The British Museum Press, 1996)

T. Clayton, The English print, 1688-1802 (New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1997)