{"id":3522,"date":"2024-08-25T10:35:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T09:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2024-06-04T16:37:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T15:37:49","slug":"george-stubbs-300th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/08\/25\/george-stubbs-300th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"George Stubbs 300th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3523\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/06\/stubbs-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">George Stubbs ARA (1724-1806) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such as Reynolds and Gainsborough. Early clients for his sporting and racing paintings included many of the noblemen who founded the Jockey Club.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3524 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/06\/stubbs-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"192\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stubbs spent his early career in the north, painting portraits and developing his interest in anatomy. In the later 1740s he lived in York and supplied the illustrations for a treatise on midwifery. Following a brief visit to Rome in 1754, he settled in Lincolnshire, where he researched his major publication, &#8216;The Anatomy of the Horse&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Like Gainsborough, he later painted scenes of peasant life, as well as studies of wild and exotic animals. He also became known as a printmaker and for his paintings in enamel on Wedgwood earthenware plaques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Stubbs ARA (1724-1806) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such as Reynolds and Gainsborough. Early clients for his sporting and racing paintings included many of the noblemen who founded the Jockey Club. Stubbs spent his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/08\/25\/george-stubbs-300th-anniversary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;George Stubbs 300th anniversary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":3525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3527,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions\/3527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}