GEORGE STUBBS, R.A. 1 95 



The first shows the horse with the Hon in the 

 distance ; the second the horse's terror at the 

 appearance of the beast from behind a rock ; and 

 third, the Hon seizing his prey. Returning to 

 England, Stubbs went to reside with his mother 

 in Liverpool, to fulfil the commissions which now 

 poured in upon him and to pursue his anatomical 

 studies. A picture he painted about this time of 

 a grey mare, his own property, attracted the notice 

 of a London picture dealer named Parsons, who 

 urged him to seek his fortune in the metropolis ; 

 but Stubbs, when he left Liverpool, which he did 

 in 1750 soon after his mother's death, went to 

 Lincolnshire to paint a series of horse portraits 

 for Lady Nelthorpe. 



In 1758 Stubbs took up his quarters at a farm- 

 house near Horkstow, in Lincolnshire, to carry 

 out the long and disagreeable series of dissections 

 whose results are preserved to us in his famous 

 Anatomy of the Hoj-se. His only companion was 

 his orphan niece, Miss Mary Spencer, who from 

 the first had taken keen interest in his work. 



It is strange to us now to read that when the 

 Anatomy of the Horse, with its invaluable drawings 

 was completed, the artist could not find in London 

 an engraver willing to undertake the execution 

 of the necessary plates therefrom. His failure to 

 secure the services of a suitable man threw him 



