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Handsome Tributes. The loan show was packed with surprises. Paul Mellon has been known publicly as a collector of 18th and 19th century British painting (TIME, July 5, 1963). Since his mother was English and he loved riding to hounds, it was a taste that came naturally. In fact, his...
The collection belongs to Paul Mellon, the son of an English mother, a graduate of Yale and Cambridge, and (by inheritance from his famous father, Pittsburgh Financier Andrew Mellon) a collector of taste and sensitivity. From 1907 until 1914, Paul Mellon spent almost every summer in Britain, still remembers "laughing...
Adventures at Night. At the age of eight. George had an obvious talent-and a curiously gruesome way of developing it. The son of a Liverpool leather dresser, young Stubbs would borrow human bones from a physician in the neighborhood and take them home to sketch. By the time he...
He was a man of such vigor and strength that some admirers swore he once carried a dead horse up three flights of stairs to be dissected. He had a common-law wife and an illegitimate son, who piously reported the poignant fact that in the 40 years before his...
Down to the Bone. How did Stubbs learn his art? One contemporary described a scene that took place in a farmhouse in Lincolnshire. "The first subject that [Stubbs] prepared was a horse which was bled to death by the jugular vein. A Bar of Iron was then suspended from the...