Self-Portrait
ca. 1759
Meet George Stubbs, an artist who approached the Romantic movement's love of nature with the precision of a mad scientist. Staring out from a dark oval background in a simple beige coat, he looks quite serious—probably because he was busy revolutionizing art. He famously spent months in a Lincolnshire farmhouse dissecting horses layer by layer to understand their anatomy, ensuring his animals looked like living, breathing creatures rather than the stiff wooden toys painted by his predecessors.
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