Five Brood Mares at the Duke of Cumberland's Stud Farm in Windsor Great Park
George Stubbs, RA (Liverpool 1724 – London 1806)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1765 (signed) - 1765 (exh at Society of Artists)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
991 x 1880 mm (39 x 74 in )
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Ascott Estate, Buckinghamshire
NT 1535163
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Five Brood Mares at the Duke of Cumberland's Stud Farm in Windsor Great Park by George Stubbs, RA (Liverpool 1724 – London 1806), signed, bottom right: Geo Stubbs pinxit, 1765. The horse are disposed in a frieze-like composition in a meadow under a large oak tree in full leaf; a pool in the background. This was the artist's first Royal commission from the King's uncle, the Duke of Cumberland.
Provenance
Earl of Clarendon; Leopold de Rothschild (1845 –1917); thence by descent to Anthony de Rothschild (1887- 1961) by whom given to the National Trust with the house in 1949
Credit line
Ascott, The Anthony de Rothschild Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
George Stubbs, RA (Liverpool 1724 – London 1806), artist
References
Sparrow 1922: Walter Shaw Sparrow, British Sporting Artists, London, 1922, p. 138 Taylor 1955 Basil Walter Taylor, Animal Painting in England from Barlow to Landseer, Harmondsworth 1955, p. 63, pl. VI Taylor 1971 Basil Taylor, Stubbs, London, 1971, p. 207, no. 22 Solkin 2015 David H. Solkin, Art in Britain 1660 - 1815, Pelican History of Art, Yale University Press, 2015, p. 197, fig. 195