Where can you see George Stubbs in London?

At the National Gallery: Whistlejacket. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is George Stubbs's most famous work in London?

Whistlejacket, of about 1762, at the National Gallery. A chestnut stallion rears against plain olive paint, with no rider, no groom and no landscape. The gallery bought it in 1997, and it hangs where you can see it from several rooms away.

When and where was George Stubbs born?

On 25 August 1724, at Liverpool. George Stubbs died on 10 July 1806, at London, aged about 82.

What is George Stubbs known for?

Published The Anatomy of the Horse in 1766. Whistlejacket is nearly three metres high. George Stubbs was an English painter, of British painting.

Painter, 1724 to 1806

George Stubbs

Stubbs spent eighteen months in a farmhouse in Lincolnshire dissecting horses, layer by layer, and drawing what he found. Nobody before him had known the animal so well, and nobody has painted it better.

Born: 1724, Liverpool
Died: 1806, London
Movement: British painting
In London: 1 work in 1 museum

Where to see George Stubbs in London

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

The National Gallery1 work

Whistlejacket
about 1762
A chestnut stallion rears against plain olive paint, with no rider, no groom and no landscape. The gallery bought it in 1997, and it hangs where you can see it from several rooms away.

The life of George Stubbs

He was the son of a leather worker in Liverpool and taught himself. The book that came out of his dissections, The Anatomy of the Horse, of 1766, made him the painter every racehorse owner wanted.

He was treated in his lifetime as a painter of animals, a low rank. It took two hundred years for him to be counted with Gainsborough and Reynolds.

What to know

Published The Anatomy of the Horse in 1766
Whistlejacket is nearly three metres high

Born: 25 August 1724, Liverpool
Died: 10 July 1806, London

George Stubbs: common questions

Where can you see George Stubbs in London?: At the National Gallery: Whistlejacket. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is George Stubbs's most famous work in London?: Whistlejacket, of about 1762, at the National Gallery. A chestnut stallion rears against plain olive paint, with no rider, no groom and no landscape. The gallery bought it in 1997, and it hangs where you can see it from several rooms away.
When and where was George Stubbs born?: On 25 August 1724, at Liverpool. George Stubbs died on 10 July 1806, at London, aged about 82.
What is George Stubbs known for?: Published The Anatomy of the Horse in 1766. Whistlejacket is nearly three metres high. George Stubbs was an English painter, of British painting.