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George Stubbs: his patrons and collectors.(painter, horse paintings)(Cover Story)
Arguably the world's greatest painter of horses, George Stubbs worked mostly for the horse-loving British nobility and gentry. Although he took advantage of the increasing number of public art exhibitions in his lifetime, showing and selling his work at the annual exhibitions of the Society of Artists and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, his mainstay was the private commission.
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Stubbs arrived in London from northern England at the end of the 1750s, showed potential clients the superb group of anatomical drawings that he had made from his own dissections of horses (see Pl. III), and attracted a plentiful supply of commissions ...
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