Whistlejacket: Stubbs
Stubbs was an observer; in some of his pictures of mares and foals he is so touched by
the sheer beauty of the subject that his detached observations are transformed; and in
one painting he leaves his deliberate naturalism behind, and sets out to create an ideal
horse.
This is Whistlejacket, surely one of the greatest pictures of an animal ever painted.
Mares and foals: Stubbs