George Stubbs ARA (25 August 1724 – 10 July 1806) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills...
34 KB (3,478 words) - 05:34, 31 August 2024
progressive causes including Henry George's Single Tax (Georgism). The son of Alfred Stubbs and Mary P. Durham, Stubbs was born on the island of Cockburn...
11 KB (1,316 words) - 22:57, 22 October 2024
Whistlejacket (category Paintings by George Stubbs)
is an oil-on-canvas painting from about 1762 by the British artist George Stubbs showing the Marquess of Rockingham's racehorse approximately at life-size...
14 KB (1,860 words) - 12:57, 8 March 2024
Beau Brummell (redirect from George Brummell)
George Bryan "Beau" Brummell (7 June 1778 – 30 March 1840) was an important figure in Regency England, and for many years he was the arbiter of British...
35 KB (4,139 words) - 18:07, 25 October 2024
surprise her. The wealthy Sir George Stubbs owns Nasse House. His much younger wife is the beautiful Hattie, Lady Stubbs. She shows interest in fine clothes...
16 KB (2,100 words) - 03:41, 14 August 2024
(1702–1752) Charles Loraine Smith (1751–1835) Frans Snyders (1579–1657) George Stubbs (1724–1806) Charles Towne (1763–1840) Jacob Xavier Vermoelen (c. 1714–1784)...
13 KB (1,270 words) - 13:33, 29 October 2024
glimpse of a kangaroo for many 18th-century Britons was a painting by George Stubbs. Kangaroos and wallabies belong to the same taxonomic family (Macropodidae)...
69 KB (7,562 words) - 12:40, 26 September 2024
to as "The Queen's Ass", and was the subject of an oil painting by George Stubbs in 1763. The zebra also gained a reputation for being ill-tempered and...
76 KB (8,473 words) - 14:35, 21 October 2024
to the National Maritime Museum to allow it to keep two 18th-century George Stubbs paintings (Portrait of a Large Dog and The Kongouro from New Holland)...
26 KB (2,381 words) - 10:25, 22 October 2024
manuscripts". A painting by George Stubbs, "Brood Mares and Foals", was sold at auction in 2010 for £10,121,250, a record price for Stubbs. Under the House of...
5 KB (436 words) - 18:27, 27 October 2024
Cross Franklin Stubbs (born 1960), American baseball player Garrett Stubbs (born 1993), American professional baseball player George Stubbs (1724–1806),...
3 KB (350 words) - 20:14, 24 February 2024
Adam to lead the architect in the use of his chimneypieces and for George Stubbs to lead the way in the use of Wedgwood plaques. Wedgwood hoped to monopolise...
44 KB (4,882 words) - 19:00, 1 October 2024
Royal Academy in 1780. The subject here was the mistress of the painter George Stubbs. A portrait of "Mrs Nesbitt as Circe" by Reynolds followed in 1781....
95 KB (11,862 words) - 09:26, 29 October 2024
benefit, and include his vast art collection, including four paintings by George Stubbs and six by Anthony van Dyck and properties in England, Ireland and the...
8 KB (677 words) - 01:10, 25 September 2024
Five(ish) Doctors Reboot Himself TV film Agatha Christie's Poirot Sir George Stubbs Episode : "Dead Man's Folly" Death in Paradise Malcolm Powell Episode:...
30 KB (1,284 words) - 03:16, 3 November 2024
The Kongouro from New Holland (category Paintings by George Stubbs)
The Kongouro from New Holland is an oil painting by George Stubbs. Depicting a kangaroo, it is the first painting of an Australian animal in Western art...
5 KB (451 words) - 01:09, 2 September 2024
Commander Duncan Joseph George Stubbs (born 1961) is the former Principal Director of Music for the RAF Music Services. Stubbs joined the Royal Air force...
1 KB (107 words) - 17:51, 24 October 2024
that the platypus was a hoax. In the form of copies and reproductions, George Stubbs' 1772 paintings Portrait of a Large Dog and The Kongouro from New Holland—depicting...
33 KB (3,461 words) - 04:42, 20 October 2024
contains a painting titled Mare Mourning and realise that it may be a lost George Stubbs artwork depicting a mare mourning a foal that died of lethal white syndrome...
14 KB (1,599 words) - 11:15, 12 September 2024
as they are not named on pieces they designed. Wedgwood commissioned George Stubbs and William Wood, as well as the Flaxmans, father and son. William Hackwood...
16 KB (1,797 words) - 23:57, 3 July 2024
Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor (category Peers of Great Britain created by George III)
painted by George Stubbs in 1779. Sweetbriar (b. 1769), bred by either Thomas Meredith or Lord Grosvenor, and also painted by George Stubbs. Protector...
15 KB (1,295 words) - 15:45, 1 November 2023
includes pieces owned and commissioned by him, including paintings by George Stubbs. The Duke of Portland—First Lord of the Treasury Lord Stormont—Lord...
29 KB (2,026 words) - 20:54, 2 November 2024
paintings such as at Lascaux. Major artists such as Albrecht Dürer, George Stubbs and Edwin Landseer are known for their portraits of animals. Animals...
47 KB (4,178 words) - 10:47, 6 November 2024
feudal society. Tigers have also been featured in Western paintings. George Stubbs draw realistic portraits of the cats, including one that was partially...
20 KB (2,355 words) - 05:38, 13 September 2024
Bill (2001) as George Stubbs Baddiel's Syndrome (2001) as Drugs tsar EastEnders (2001) as Harry Slater Out of Bounds (2003) as Lionel Stubbs (final film...
19 KB (2,203 words) - 18:45, 5 November 2024
Suffolk, 1748 George Stubbs, Whistlejacket, c. 1762 Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, c. 1766 George Stubbs, The Kongouro...
83 KB (10,333 words) - 20:23, 26 September 2024
the horse as an Arabian, and he was described as such by the painter George Stubbs. Lord Godolphin later bought a second stallion in 1750. This one he...
33 KB (2,033 words) - 08:05, 8 November 2024
Getty Museum since 2014. The art of George Stubbs became a favorite of collector Paul Mellon, who donated many of Stubbs' paintings to the Yale Center for...
7 KB (676 words) - 13:32, 29 October 2024
tradition that reached a high-point a century later, in the work of George Stubbs. He was furthermore a pioneer in the history of comics by creating A...
11 KB (1,165 words) - 15:46, 2 September 2024
George Stubbs Brackenreg (1858–1928) was an Australian entrepreneur and a co-founder of Rugby League in Australia. Brackenreg, along with J J Giltinan...
1 KB (138 words) - 09:19, 3 October 2023