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    George Stubbs ARA (25 August 1724 – 10 July 1806) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills...
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    Whistlejacket (category Paintings by George Stubbs)
    is an oil-on-canvas painting from about 1762 by the British artist George Stubbs showing the Marquess of Rockingham's racehorse approximately at life-size...
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  • progressive causes including Henry George's Single Tax (Georgism). The son of Alfred Stubbs and Mary P. Durham, Stubbs was born on the island of Cockburn...
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  • surprise her. The wealthy Sir George Stubbs owns Nasse House. His much younger wife is the beautiful Hattie, Lady Stubbs. She shows interest in fine clothes...
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    George Bryan "Beau" Brummell (7 June 1778 – 30 March 1840) was an important figure in Regency England, and for many years he was the arbiter of British...
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  • Cross Franklin Stubbs (born 1960), American baseball player Garrett Stubbs (born 1993), American professional baseball player George Stubbs (1724–1806),...
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    (1702–1752) Charles Loraine Smith (1751–1835) Frans Snyders (1579–1657) George Stubbs (1724–1806) Charles Towne (1763–1840) Jacob Xavier Vermoelen (c. 1714–1784)...
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    to the National Maritime Museum to allow it to keep two 18th-century George Stubbs paintings (Portrait of a Large Dog and The Kongouro from New Holland)...
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    to as "The Queen's Ass", and was the subject of an oil painting by George Stubbs in 1763. The zebra also gained a reputation for being ill-tempered and...
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    glimpse of a kangaroo for many 18th-century Britons was a painting by George Stubbs. Kangaroos and wallabies belong to the same taxonomic family (Macropodidae)...
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    Royal Academy in 1780. The subject here was the mistress of the painter George Stubbs. A portrait of "Mrs Nesbitt as Circe" by Reynolds followed in 1781....
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    Adam to lead the architect in the use of his chimneypieces and for George Stubbs to lead the way in the use of Wedgwood plaques. Wedgwood hoped to monopolise...
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    era, as the tradition of horse racing emerged under Tudor patronage. George Stubbs, born in 1724, became so associated with his equestrian subjects that...
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    the horse as an Arabian, and he was described as such by the painter George Stubbs. Lord Godolphin later bought a second stallion in 1750. This one he...
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    paintings such as at Lascaux. Major artists such as Albrecht Dürer, George Stubbs and Edwin Landseer are known for their portraits of animals. Animals...
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  • the c. 1765 painting Newmarket Heath, with a Rubbing-down House by George Stubbs. Williams reveals he will be auctioning the painting at the party the...
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    The Kongouro from New Holland (category Paintings by George Stubbs)
    The Kongouro from New Holland is an oil painting by George Stubbs. Depicting a kangaroo, it is the first painting of an Australian animal in Western art...
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    designed. As well as the Flaxmans, father and son, Wedgwood commissioned George Stubbs, and William Wood. William Hackwood was his chief in-house modeller...
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    feudal society. Tigers have also been featured in Western paintings. George Stubbs draw realistic portraits of the cats, including one that was partially...
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  • benefit, and include his vast art collection, including four paintings by George Stubbs and six by Anthony van Dyck and properties in England, Ireland and the...
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    that the platypus was a hoax. In the form of copies and reproductions, George Stubbs' 1772 paintings Portrait of a Large Dog and The Kongouro from New Holland—depicting...
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    David Coleman 1962 Convicts 4 John Resko 1962 The Captive City Captain George Stubbs 1965 A Rage to Live Roger Bannon 1969 If It's Tuesday, This Must Be...
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    Suffolk, 1748 George Stubbs, Whistlejacket, c. 1762 Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, c. 1766 George Stubbs, The Kongouro...
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    paintings such as at Lascaux. Major artists such as Albrecht Dürer, George Stubbs and Edwin Landseer are known for their portraits of animals. Animals...
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    Towards the later series, other characters such as Poirot’s English butler George, played by David Yelland, and crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, played by Zoë...
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  • Bulino. p. 260. ISBN 978-88-86251-22-8. George Stubbs; Tate Gallery; Yale Center for British Art (1984). George Stubbs, 1724-1806. Tate Gallery. p. 12. ISBN 9780881620382...
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  • Bill (2001) as George Stubbs Baddiel's Syndrome (2001) as Drugs tsar EastEnders (2001) as Harry Slater Out of Bounds (2003) as Lionel Stubbs (final film...
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    includes pieces owned and commissioned by him, including paintings by George Stubbs. The Duke of Portland—First Lord of the Treasury Lord Stormont—Lord...
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    Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor (category Peers of Great Britain created by George III)
    painted by George Stubbs in 1779. Sweetbriar (b. 1769), bred by either Thomas Meredith or Lord Grosvenor, and also painted by George Stubbs. Protector...
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    manuscripts". A painting by George Stubbs, "Brood Mares and Foals", was sold at auction in 2010 for £10,121,250, a record price for Stubbs. Burkes Peerage, volume...
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