igS ANIMAL PAINTERS 



them seems to have laid the foundation of the 

 artist's friendship with the Wedgewood family, of 

 whom he painted one of his most successful portrait 

 groups and other individu il portraits. 



In the year 1780 George Stubbs was elected an 

 Associate of the Royal Academy, and in 1781 an 

 Academician. The difficulty which arose between 

 the artist and the Royal Academy has been 

 examined at length in the Life of George 

 Stubbs, R.A.* and the several accounts of the 

 circumstances under which the artist's election 

 remained unratified are therein detailed. It will 

 suffice here to state that George Stubbs was 

 invited to be of the Forty ; that the trouble arose 

 over a regulation subsequently made concerning 

 the presentation of a Diploma picture, and that 

 the dispute reflected no discredit upon George 

 Stubbs as a man or as an artist. For a few 

 years he ceased to send pictures to the Academy 

 exhibitions; but in that of 1786 he was repre- 

 sented by two works, and thereafter continued to 

 do so with regularity till 1791, when he again 

 ceased to exhibit until 1799. 



In 1790 Stubbs undertook to paint for The Turf 

 Review a series of portraits of horses which had 



='' Tlu Life of George Stubbs, R.A., by Sir Walter Gilbey, 

 Bart. Published in 1S98 by Vinton & Co., Ltd. 



