George Stubbs
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George Stubbs (August 25, 1724 – July 10, 1806) was a British painter, best known for his paintings of horses.
Stubbs studied anatomy and taught it at a hospital in York, but as an artist was largely self-taught. He lived for the most part in Lincolnshire and London.
In 1751 he made illustrations for a textbook on midwifery and in 1766 published Anatomy of the Horse. He became a popular painter of horses to the aristocracy, also producing pictures of dogs, portraits, scenes of rural life, and some work on enamel executed under the guidance of Josiah Wedgwood.
A selection of Stubbs' horse paintings was displayed at The Walters Museum (http://www.thewalters.org/) in Baltimore, Maryland, from March 13, 2005 to June 5, 2005. dafydd 02:38, 2005 May 30 (UTC)
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- 'Molly Longlegs' (1762) (http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/18c/stubbs.asp) in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/)