George Stubbs knew the horse from the inside out, and that anatomical certainty is exactly what gives his animals the solid, breathing presence that carries so well into counted cross stitch.
An English painter, born in 1724 and died in 1806, Stubbs taught himself. He never trained under Joshua Reynolds or Thomas Gainsborough or anyone else of that generation, and his understanding of animals came instead from his own long study of anatomy. He painted history subjects and landscape, but it is the horses people remember, above all Whistlejacket, which hangs in the National Gallery in London. His pictures of a lion attacking a horse came early in the Romantic movement and helped shape it. Royal patronage followed.
Frank Cadogan Cowper, Ivan Aivazovsky, John Constable, and Karl Briullov were fellow Romantics working in much the same territory.
If it is the painting itself you love rather than the stitching, George Stubbs art prints are easy to find.
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