Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
Riding on named ground
The title names two sitters and the place they are riding, a hall, which is to say an estate. That combination is a genre of its own: owners shown on their own land, mounted, with the animal doing the same work it does in a state portrait but on behalf of a smaller claim. It asserts possession rather than sovereignty.
What the record holds
The date of creation is 1777 and the location line reads Private Collection. The dimensions are 124 x 100.4 cm. Romanticism is the recorded style, British the recorded nationality, and the measured colour family of the image is yellow. Male portraiture sits alongside Animal Art > Horse in the headings.
The largest single group in this catalogue
31 works by this painter are assembled here, as many as by any other hand in the collection, and they run across the functional range: sporting subjects, driving subjects and animals shown on their own. The count is a fact about what was gathered rather than a judgement about importance, and this catalogue makes no ranking out of it.
Sources
5 references- Stubbs, George Townley — Getty ULAN
English engraver, 1756-1815
- George Stubbs — Wikipedia
George Stubbs (25 August 1724 – 10 July 1806) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such as Joshua Reynolds and Thom
- Stubbs, George — Getty ULAN
English painter, 1724-1806
- Otho, with John Larkin up — Wikidata
description: painting by George Stubbs; inception: 1768-01-01; dimensions: 127 × 101.3 cm; collection: Tate
- tate.org.uk — record for "Otho, with John Larkin up"
Primary source record for this work (tate.org.uk).
