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A Rough Dog Signed and dated 1790
Oil on canvas | 101.5 x 127.1 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 405001
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The Royal Collection holds an important group of paintings by George Stubbs; all of them were acquired by George IV when Prince of Wales and all of them (with the exception of OM 1115, 400512) were sent in 1822 from Carlton House to the King’s Lodge (later Royal Lodge) in Windsor Great Park, presumably as an appropriate setting for sporting paintings. In 1793 Thomas Allwood presented a bill to the Prince for £110 16s, for ‘Carving & Gilding eight Picture frames of half length size [40 x 50 inches] for sundry Pictures painted by Mr Stubbs’. This is one of thirteen paintings in the collection of these dimensions (40 x 50 inches), all in identical frames and all dated between 1790 and 1793 (OM 1109-12, 1115-8, 1122-6, 400142, 400106, 400995, 400997, 400512, 400560, 400994, 400587, 400510, 400562, 400943, 405001, 400549). It is not possible to say which were the eight mentioned in Allwood’s bill, and how they might have been grouped or paired off; but they all seem to have been conceived loosely as a set. Stubbs is most renowned as a painter of horses, but this depiction of a large, amiable dog lying under a tree in a rocky landscape with a glimpse of the sea beyond is a reminder of the scope of his abilities. Signed and dated: Geo: Stubbs pinxit / 1790
Provenance
Presumably painted for George IV; recorded in store at Carlton House in 1816 (no. 422) and 1819 (no 405); taken to the King's Lodge (Royal Lodge) in Windsor Park in 1822; in Windsor Castle in 1858 (Room 321)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
101.5 x 127.1 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
132.4 x 157.3 x 11.0 cm (frame, external)