The Fall of Phaeton
George Stubbs, RA (Liverpool 1724 – London 1806)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1777 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
965 x 1219 mm (39 x 48 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872175
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Fall of Phaeton by George Stubbs, RA (Liverpool 1724 – London 1806), signed and dated bottom left: Stubbs pinxit [the date '1777' was previously read, with some uncertainty as to the last digit but has since disappeared]. Phaeton in a blue cloak strains to slow down the horses, which are galloping with the Chariot of the sun to the right.
Provenance
Accepted with Saltram house and the more important chattels by HM Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the National Trust in 1957
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (accepted in lieu of tax by HM Treasury, and transferred to The National Trust in 1957)
Makers and roles
George Stubbs, RA (Liverpool 1724 – London 1806), artist
Exhibition history
Stubbs and The Wild, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 2016, no.4
References
Hall 2000: Nicholas H. J. Hall (ed.), Fearful Symmetry: George Stubbs, Painter of the English Enlightenment, exh. cat., Hall & Knight Ltd., New York 2000, pp. 120-3, no. 25, pl. 25 Stubbs and the Wild (Ed. Amina Wright), The Holburne Museum, Bath, 25 June to 2 October 2016, p. 12, fig. 4