William Evelyn, Esq

by George Stubbs, George Townly Stubbs

$3,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A striking portrait of William Evelyn by one of the most famous English painters, George Stubbs. A wonderful portrait of William Evelyn which demonstrates Stubbs' remarkable talents as a portrait painter. George Stubbs is considered one of the greatest English painters. His ingenious animal and sporting pictures remain unrivalled in their sympathetic renderings of animals, particularly horses. Stubbs was briefly apprenticed to the painter Hamlet Winstanley, a relationship

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