George Stubbs

George Stubbs Biography:
George Stubbs was born in 1724 in Liverpool. He was a pupil of Hamlet Winstanley for a short time in 1739 and this started off Stubb's career as a portrait painter. During his time in York, Stubbs knew enough anatomy to give private lessons to medical students at York Hospital and this led to his commissions in 1751 to illustrate a book on midwifery by Dr John Burton. His interest in anatomy and its studies continued all his life and proved to be important to his art, prints and posters. In 1766 his painting "The Anatomy of a Horse" was published. This added to his prestige as an artist. He was working on a comparative anatomy of a man, a tiger and a common fowl when he died, leaving them incomplete.  >>click here for more