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Stubbs, thought that the new education had turned teachers into nothing more than "professional baby sitters," and that the elimination of high-school examinations was nothing short of a "public disgrace." He was fully in agreement with the basic Roberts thesis: it was certainly about time that the public become...
At painting horses, his specialty over a career of more than 50 years, 18th Century English Artist George Stubbs was never headed by any other in the field. For a lot of Londoners last week, Stubbs's life-size portrait of the great English race horse, Hambletonian,* ran away...
Stubbs's noble conception of horseflesh was based on painstaking, back-breaking labor. Born in 1724, when the study of zoology was still rudimentary, he rented an isolated farm in Lincolnshire, and bought up a series of horse cadavers. Disregarding their gamy condition, he propped them upright with a...
Stubbs's diligent studies paid off in other ways. As England's recognized authority on horses, he was swamped with commissions from hard-riding country gentlemen for portraits of their favorite mounts. They were rarely disappointed. Such Stubbs champions as the Marquis of Rockingham's yellow sorrel...
Stubbs's curiosity was not limited to horses. He was a qualified medical lecturer on human anatomy, did the technical illustrations for his friend Dr. John Burton's Essay Towards a Complete New System of Midwifery. He was a vigorous 75 when he executed his 7-by-12...