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The Prince of Wales's Phaeton by George Stubbs

The Prince of Wales's Phaeton

George Stubbs·1793

Historical Context

The Prince of Wales's Phaeton from 1793 by George Stubbs depicts the carriage and horses of the future George IV. Stubbs was the greatest equestrian painter in British art history, whose anatomical study of the horse, published in 1766, revolutionized animal painting. Stubbs's oil technique was grounded in exhaustive anatomical study—he spent eighteen months dissecting horses at a Lincolnshire farmhouse before painting the plates for his Anatomy of the Horse (1766)—producing an exactitude of...

Technical Analysis

The horses and carriage are rendered with Stubbs's unmatched anatomical precision, each animal's musculature and posture depicted with scientific accuracy.

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Royal Collection

London, United Kingdom

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Quick Facts

Medium
Oil paint
Dimensions
102 × 128.1 cm
Era
Neoclassicism
Style
British Neoclassicism
Genre
Animal
Location
Royal Collection, London
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