Lustre, held by a Groom

Lustre, Held by a Groom from 1762 by George Stubbs is a horse portrait documenting a named animal in the care of its attendant. The groom-holding-horse format was one of Stubbs's most common and commercially successful composition types. Stubbs's equine paintings combine the anatomical precision gained from his seven-year dissection project — published as The Anatomy of the Horse in 1766 — with compositional elegance informed by classical sculpture. His horse portraits were commissioned by th...

The horse and groom are depicted with Stubbs's characteristic precision, the animal's build and coloring carefully rendered.