Mr. Hospey (?)Walker

Mr. Hospey Walker from 1783 by George Stubbs is a portrait combining human likeness with the equestrian setting for which the artist was famous. Stubbs's ability to portray both horse and rider with equal skill made him the preferred painter of the sporting aristocracy. Stubbs's oil technique was grounded in exhaustive anatomical study—he spent eighteen months dissecting horses at a Lincolnshire farmhouse before painting the plates for his Anatomy of the Horse (1766)—producing an exactitude...

The equestrian portrait balances attention to the rider's features with Stubbs's characteristic anatomical precision in rendering the horse.