George Stubbs And The Wide Creation

Robin Blake is a full-time writer whose publications include Anthony van Dyck: A Life, 1599-1641 (1999) and Essential Modern Art (2001).Far more than a fine horse portraitist, George Stubbs was a painter and a printmaker of the highest importance, on a par with his great contemporaries, Hogarth, Reynolds and Gainsborough. An artist-scientist who emulated Leonardo da Vinci, Stubbs tirelessly explored the natural world, and new ways of representing it.Born the son of a Liverpool tradesman, Stubbs