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Five Brood Mares at the Duke of Cumberland's Stud Farm in Windsor Great Park
George Stubbs·1762
Historical Context
Five Brood Mares at the Duke of Cumberland's Stud Farm from 1762 by George Stubbs documents the royal breeding program in Windsor Great Park. The duke's stud was one of the most important horse-breeding operations in England. 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 the racing est...
Technical Analysis
The five mares are individually characterized with Stubbs's anatomical precision, each horse's build and coloring carefully distinguished within the parkland setting.
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