The art dealer Anthony Mould chooses a rarity: a human portrait by Stubbs.
Anthony Mould on ‘James Stanley’ by George Stubbs
‘James Stanley was painted in Liverpool by a then little known, if rising, young George Stubbs, during the Christmas period of 1755, soon after returning from his only tour of Italy. The sitter’s porcine features are not flattered, but his stout character reaches across time, and both the anatomical and the chromatic analysis here is…
