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 ...

One sees why pictures like this found favor with horse-loving Texas ranchers and oilmen. The Kimbell has given a home to Stubbs’s art, if not exactly on the range, then at least close by ...

The painting speaks of shared purpose between horse and jockey, a common gaze. This quality of common purpose is reminiscent of Stubbs’s Otho, with John Larkin up (1768), part of a meditative ...

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 ...

It is, therefore, no surprise that the Kimbell Art Museum should have just acquired George Stubbs’s exquisite “Mares and Foals Belonging to the Second Viscount Bolingbroke” (1761-62), and ...