Horse sculptures created to celebrate the world-renowned artist George Stubbs are to be auctioned to raise money for charity.

One of the earliest known ­images in British art is the engraving on bone of a horse’s head, found in 1876 at Creswell Crags, Derbyshire. It was discovered among the bones of ­numerous animals ...

Though he completed fewer than 400 paintings over his entire career, Stubbs’ skill meant he developed a reputation for his depictions of animals, and horses in particular. His painting of a ...

The collection, half a million pounds’ worth of paintings and ... of George Stubbs’s beautifully painted study of Gimcrack (see cut), a magnificent grey horse of the 1760s, or of Marshall ...

The horse is set against a dimly lit rural ... Born in 1724, in Liverpool, Stubbs taught himself how to paint by studying the other great artists of his day, and rose to fame specifically for ...