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upon his own resources, and he engraved the 

 plates himself — -a task which occupied all his spare 

 time for six or seven years. The book eventually 

 was published by subscription in 1766. It may 

 fairly be said that this remarkable piece of work 

 opened a new era in horse painting. We might 

 almost divide our British painters of horse pictures 

 into two periods — those who lived before Stubbs, 

 and those who followed him and profited by his 

 monumental labours at the Horkstow farmhouse. 



Stubbs had been receiving as much as 100 

 guineas for the likeness of a horse, while in a 

 letter to him Sir Joshua Reynolds says : " My 

 price for a head is 35 guineas ; as far as the knees 

 70 guineas ; and for a whole length 1 50 guineas. 



In 1760 he went to Eaton Hall to paint 

 several pictures for the then Lord Grosvenor — 

 "The Grosvenor Hunt" being, perhaps, the most 

 important work executed. In 1762 he went to 

 Goodwood House to paint a number of pictures 

 for the Duke of Richmond — among them a 

 portrait of the Earl of Albemarle and " Race- 

 horses Training," which included portraits of the 

 Duke and Duchess of Richmond and Lady Louisa 

 Lennox, all on horseback. He went next to 

 Wentworth House, where, for the Marquis of 

 Rockingham, he painted several pictures of horses, 

 including one of the famous Whistlejacket. At 



