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Horse Attacked by a Lion

Academician / British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Horse Attacked by a Lion” of 1765 by George Stubbs.  The artist was born in Liverpool and worked for his father as a leather merchant until he was sixteen.  He was apprenticed to a painter  a year later in 1741 after his father’s death.  In the 1740′s he worked as a portraitist in the north of England and travelled to Italy in 1754.  He moved to London in 1759 and in 1766 published an illustrated book on The Anatomy of the Horse.  Commissions by the nobility enabled him to buy a comfortable home in a fashionable part of London where he lived for the rest of life which eneded in 1806 at the age of eighty-one.  This work is 97 cm wide and 66 cm high and is in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.
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Lady Godiva by John Collier, 1898

Academician / British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Lady Godiva” of 1898 by John Collier.  This English artist of the Pre-Raphaelite School painted this work when he was forty-eight years old.  He studied at the Munich Academy and was one of the most prominent portraitists of his age.  The Prince of Wales was his major patron and he died in 1934.  This painting of a major English mythological tale which depicts the naked wife of Earl Leofric of Mercia riding through Coventry to protest an unfair tax.  The legend dates from the Thirteenth Century and was popular in Victorian England as a morality tale.

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