aster and British Paintings sales series which totaled a record $127.4 million for the week, surpassing the pre-sale estimate of $73/108 million by a wide margin. The top lot of the series was George Stubbs' Tygers at Play which brought $13.2 million, above the pre-sale high estimate of $10 million.
Date: Aug 08, 2014
Category: Business
Source: Google
UK foils Australian bid to buy kangaroo, dingo paintings
The oils by British animal painter George Stubbs were first exhibited in London in 1773, giving the public their first glimpse of the exotic creatures most identified with the wild new territory of Australia.
Date: Nov 06, 2013
Category: Entertainment
Source: Google
If the Lesula is a newly discovered monkey, why is it so oddly familiar?
Animals have occasionally been portrayed with the same degree of empathy and intensity, especially by 18th century British artist George Stubbs, whose brown-eyed horse Whistlejacket stares passionately at visitors to the National Gallery. But when it comes to eliciting human sympathy, the Lesula sta