Studies for or after "The third Duke of Richmond with the Charleton Hunt"

Studies for the Third Duke of Richmond with the Charleton Hunt from 1750 is an early work by George Stubbs, showing his developing approach to the group equestrian portrait before his anatomical studies transformed his technique. Stubbs painted primarily in oil on canvas and board, achieving a distinctive cool clarity through a careful layered technique built over a white ground. His seven years of dissecting horses in a remote Lincolnshire farmhouse gave his animal painting an anatomical aut...

The preparatory studies reveal Stubbs's working process, with the composition of multiple figures and horses being developed through careful observation.