Two Hacks Belonging to Henry U. Reay of Burn Hall in the County of Durham Esq... and Two Hunters Belonging to Herny U. Reay of Burn Hall in the County of Durham Esq..

by George Stubbs, George Townly Stubbs

$9,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

George Stubbs is considered one of the greatest English painters. His ingenious animal and sporting pictures remain unrivalled in their passionate depiction of emotion and their commitment to naturalistic observation. Stubbs was briefly apprenticed to the painter Hamlet Winstanley, a relationship that quickly ended, leaving the young artist to his own education. In contrast to contemporary academic theory, Stubbs attached great importance to the belief that art should imitate nature, not the

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