The National Gallery paid £1 lmillion in 1997 to buy a painting of the Marquess of Rockingham's racehorse Whistlejacket. Who was the artist?
"inherited by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, briefly Prime Minister in 1765–66 and again in 1782. He received Benjamin Franklin here in 1771. The architect he employed at the house was John Carr of York, who added an extra storey to parts of the East Front and provided the porticoes to the matching wings, each the equivalent of a moderately grand country house. James ""Athenian"" Stuart contributed designs for panels in the Pillared Hall. The Whistlejacket Room was named for George Stubbs' portrait that hung in it of Whistlejacket, one of the most famous racehorses of all time. The"
"for several more dukes and other lords and was able to buy a house in Marylebone, a fashionable part of London, where he lived for the rest of his life. His most famous work is probably ""Whistlejacket"", a painting of the thoroughbred race horse rising on his hind legs, commissioned by the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, which is now in the National Gallery in London. This and two other paintings carried out for Rockingham break with convention in having plain backgrounds. Throughout the 1760s he produced a wide range of individual and group portraits of horses, sometimes accompanied by hounds."
"it for £11 million. Stubbs was a specialist equine artist who in 1762 was invited by Rockingham to spend ""some months"" at Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire, his main country house. Stubbs had painted many horse portraits, with and without human figures, but the heroic scale and lack of background of ""Whistlejacket"" are ""unprecedented"" in his work and equine portraits in general and ""contemporaries were so astonished that a single horse should command a huge canvas that legends quickly developed"" explaining why the painting was unfinished, none of which seem plausible or supported by the evidence to modern art historians. In"
"the painting in his stable, that he ordered it hung without further decoration. Stubbs produced other paintings of horses against blank backgrounds for Rockingham, nothing in the painting indicates that it is not complete, and the detail of the shadows cast by Whistlejacket's rear legs on the ground suggest that this is how Stubbs intended the picture to be seen. Whistlejacket was a chestnut stallion, with flaxen-coloured mane and tail, believed to be the original colouring of the wild Arabian breed. He was a Thoroughbred race horse foaled in 1749 at the stud of Sir William Middleton, 3rd Baronet at"
"and empty walls needed filling. Horace Walpole, on the visit in 1766 mentioned below, complained of the un-landscaped park ""This lord loves nothing but horses, and the enclosures for them take place of everything"". The Wentworth archives, ""though unusually comprehensive, contain no clear reference to the commission to paint ""Whistlejacket"""", though some indication of the likely price comes from a receipt by Stubbs dated 30 December 1762 for ""Eighty Guineas for one Picture of a Lion and another of a Horse Large as Life"", probably a different picture for Rockingham's London house. Earlier in 1762, Stubbs had painted a second"
"National Gallery as one of the top 500 buildings produced in Canada during the last millennium. The Gallery has a large and varied collection of paintings, drawings, sculpture and photographs. Although its focus is on Canadian art, it holds works by many noted American and European artists. It has a strong contemporary art collection with some of Andy Warhol's most famous works. In 1990 the Gallery bought Barnett Newman's ""Voice of Fire"" for $1.8 million, igniting a storm of controversy. Since that time its value has appreciated sharply. In 2005, the Gallery acquired a painting by Italian Renaissance painter Francesco"
"pictures. Genuine works realized high prices, as, for example, at Sir William Hamilton's sale (1801), when Beckford paid 1,300 gns. for the little picture of ""A Laughing Boy"" by Leonardo da Vinci; and when at the Lafontaine sales (1807 and 1811) two Rembrandts each realized 5,000 gns., ""The Woman taken in Adultery"", now in the National Gallery, and ""The Master Shipbuilder"", now at Buckingham Palace. The Beckford sale of 1823 (41 days, ) was the forerunner of the great art dispersal of the 19th century; Horace Walpole's accumulation at Strawberry Hill, 1842 (24 days, ), and the Stowe collection, 1848"
"over the disputed 2004 award of the Archibald Prize to Craig Ruddy. The same year, James Gleeson and his partner Frank O’Keefe pledged 16 million through the Gleeson O’Keefe Foundation to acquire works for the Gallery's collection. On 10 June 2007, a 17th-century work by Frans van Mieris, entitled ""A Cavalier (Self Portrait)"", was stolen from the gallery. The painting had been donated by John Fairfax and was valued at over 1 million. The theft raised questions about need for increased security at the gallery. In the same year the Belgiorno-Nettis family donated 4 million over four years to the"
"collection beginning on 26 December 1798 ""The Raising of Lazarus"" was bought by the London banker John Julius Angerstein, apparently at the urging of Sir Thomas Lawrence. The price was very high at 3,500 guineas. Because of its importance it was catalogued as No. 1 in Angerstein's catalogue, and when the Angerstein collection was bought by the British government in 1824 for the foundation of the National Gallery the canvas was now catalogued as NG1, making it officially the first painting to enter the National Gallery. In 2017, for their exhibition of Michelangelo and Sebastiano, the National Gallery gave the"
"the sale at auction of ""Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath, with a Trainer, a Stable-Lad, and a Jockey"" (1765) at Christie's in London in July 2011 for £22.4 million. It was sold by the British Woolavington Collection of sporting art; the buyer was unidentified. The British Royal Collection holds 16 paintings by Stubbs. Two paintings by Stubbs were bought by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London after a public appeal to raise the £1.5 million required. The two paintings, ""The Kongouro from New Holland"" and ""Portrait of a Large Dog"" were both painted in 1772. Depicting a kangaroo and a"
"November 1998 Christie's auction; it sold for $71.5 million. He was certainly at the auction and was revealed as the anonymous buyer of Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1982 Self-Portrait, which closed at $3.3 million. In 1994, he bought Andy Warhol's ""Red Marilyn"", at Christie's for $3.63 million. Andy Warhol's skull portraits are from Niarchos' CAT scan. Warhol completed these works in 1985, using silkscreens made from CAT-scan films of the skull of Philip Niarchos, who commissioned the artist to paint his portrait. Niarchos is mentioned throughout The Andy Warhol Diaries. Warhol shares details of the dysfunctional relationship Niarchos had with the divorced"
"ten years. Heartbreak Publishing, Vettriano's own publishing company, produced a boxed set featuring signed, limited-edition prints of all seven paintings to mark the 75th anniversary of Sir Malcolm Campbell's final World Land Speed Record. The Bluebird paintings were auctioned by Sotheby's at the Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire on 30 August 2007, and made more than £1m in all: the most expensive was ""Bluebird at Bonneville"", bought for £468,000. His easel paintings cost between £48,000 and £195,000 new. According to ""The Guardian"" he earns £500,000 a year in print royalties. Vettriano's 1992 painting, ""The Singing Butler"", has been the best-selling image"
"the National Gallery. The exhibition included nine paintings of the D-Day landings, which Wilkinson had witnessed from HMS ""Jervis"" plus naval actions such as the sinking of the ""Bismarck"". In 1945 and 1946 the exhibition toured Australia and New Zealand. The War Artists' Advisory Committee bought one painting from Wilkinson and he donated the other fifty-one paintings to the Committee. In 1906, Wilkinson was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) becoming its President in 1936, an office he held until 1963. He was elected Honourable Marine Painter to the Royal Yacht Squadron in 1919. He"
"large Newfoundland dog. In the background are trees and water. The Gainsborough portrait has been at auction several times in the past 25 years: it made £1.2m in 1987, and then £2.65m in 2002, both times setting a world record for Gainsborough. Before the 1987 sale it had been in the same British collection for 90 years - for a long time it was on loan to the government, and hung at 10 Downing St for two years. John Bullock (1731–1809) Colonel John Bullock of Faulkbourne M.P. (31 December 1731 – 28 December 1809) was an English landowner and Member"
"1975. In 1973, the National Gallery of Australia, then called the Australian National Gallery, bought the painting ""Blue Poles"" by contemporary artist Jackson Pollock for US$2 million (A$1.3 million at the time of payment) – about a third of its annual budget. This required Whitlam's personal permission, which he gave on the condition the price was publicized. The purchase created a political and media scandal, and was said to symbolise, alternatively, Whitlam's foresight and vision or his profligate spending. Whitlam travelled extensively as prime minister, and was the first Australian prime minister to visit China while in office. He was"
"and Parrhasius. When Wentworth was remodelled under a later Earl Fitzwilliam, a 40-foot square ""Whistlejacket Room"" was created to showcase the painting, with only single family portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Sir Thomas Lawrence to keep it company. Wentworth Woodhouse ceased to be occupied by the family after World War II, and the painting was loaned to Kenwood House in London from 1971–81, the Tate Gallery 1984–85, and the National Gallery from 1996 before its purchase the next year. It is now displayed in the centre of room 34, and is framed by doorways at the end of a"
"again. It later surfaces in the collection of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor at Longford Castle, Salisbury. In a catalogue of the Radnor family's collection, published in 1909, stated that the portrait was part of the collection by 1814 and may have been acquired in 1811. It remained in the ownership of the Radnor family for over 150 years until it was sold at Christie's in London for the record sum of £2,310,000 (or 2,200,000 guineas or $5,544,000) on 27 November 1970. It was the first painting to sell for more than a £1,000,000, setting a new record for"
"has been demolished). Originally, the painting was commissioned by James Wyatt. He intended to have it engraved and sold as a print at his shop, located at 115 High Street in Oxford. The painting is now exhibited at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. In 2015, there was a campaign to raise money for the purchase of the picture (estimated value £3.5 million) since previously it was on long-term loan to the museum from a private collection since 1997. It was left to the nation in lieu of death duties. The painting was acquired using grants of £550,000 from the UK"
"the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1982, the Tate Gallery in 1984, the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. in 1986, and the Museum of Modern Art, Brussels in 1987. Among McComb’s many awards are the Royal Academy’s Jubilee Award (1977); Korn Ferry Award (1990); Times Watercolour Prize (1992 and 1993); Nordstern Print Prize (1997); and the RWS Prize (1998). McComb has received many major commissions for private and corporate collections throughout the UK, Europe, and the USA. In 1999, he completed a commissioned portrait of the novelist Doris Lessing for the National Portrait Gallery, London. The following year, he was selected by"
"National Horseracing Museum, the Sporting Art Trust and a base of Retraining of Racehorses. Newmarket's key role in sport for many centuries has made it a centre for many of Britain's finest sporting painters. The development of painting on sporting themes in the early eighteenth century was centred on the Newmarket Racecourse and the three founders of the sporting school, John Wootton, James Seymour and Peter Tillemans, painted many scenes of the racecourse and its environs. Newmarket is also the setting for some of Sir Alfred Munnings's most famous paintings. The Save Historic Newmarket group, an organisation dedicated to maintaining"
"following year. It came into the possession of art dealer Michael Bryan by 1795, and was sold to Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, who displayed it at Castle Howard. It was restored in 1884 by William Morrill, and then moved to Naworth Castle. George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle served as a Trustee of the National Gallery for more than 30 years, and offered to sell the painting to the National Gallery shortly before his death in 1911. His widow honoured his wishes, and the painting was bought by the gallery later in 1911. The £40,000 purchase price was"
"nexus for English national obsessions was a frequent topic of his work. In 1994 Wallinger appropriated an entire international football match at Wembley Stadium by being photographed with a large Union Jack banner with his name emblazoned on it. As a state flag the Union Flag has superiority to the Cross of St. George that most England football team fans display. His 1995 Turner Prize nomination was largely thanks to his work of the previous year, ""A Real Work Of Art"". This was actually a racehorse, which the racing fan Wallinger had bought and named ""A Real Work Of Art"""
"sale to the National Gallery for £17-million tax free because of special incentives in England for selling works of art that are considered national treasures. In the 21st century, art market inflation has placed enormous temptations in the way of the old families with substantial collections. In recent years, ownership of several pieces have been transferred in lieu of tax from the Cholmondeleys to the Victoria and Albert Museum. A major sale of items of pictures, furniture, silver and ""objets d'art"" from Houghton estimated at $23 million was held at Christie's in London on 8 December 1994, with the intention"
"John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, in November 1706. It was displayed at Blenheim Palace until the 8th Duke of Marlborough sold it to the National Gallery in 1895 for £17,500. It is usually exhibited in Room 31. The modern Royal Collection includes a smaller version, possibly a ""modello"" but perhaps a reduced later version. Equestrian Portrait of Charles I The Equestrian Portrait of Charles I (also known as Charles I on Horseback) is an oil painting on canvas by Anthony van Dyck, showing Charles I on horseback. Charles I had become King of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1625"
"in Washington, D.C. The gallery opened to the public in 1923. A large painted caricature by Whistler of Leyland portraying him as an anthropomorphic peacock playing a piano, and entitled ""The Gold Scab: Eruption in Frilthy Lucre"" - a pun on Leyland's fondness for frilly shirt fronts - is now in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. In 1877 Whistler sued the critic John Ruskin for libel after the critic condemned his painting """". Whistler exhibited the work in the Grosvenor Gallery, an alternative to the Royal Academy exhibition, alongside works by Edward Burne-Jones and other"
"Walker Art Gallery The Walker Art Gallery is an art gallery in Liverpool, which houses one of the largest art collections in England, outside London. It is part of the National Museums Liverpool group, and is promoted as ""the National Gallery of the North"" because it is not a local or regional gallery but is part of the national museums and galleries administered directly from central government funds. The Walker Art Gallery's collection dates from 1819 when the Liverpool Royal Institution acquired 37 paintings from the collection of William Roscoe, who had to sell his collection following the failure of"
"and the British Aesthetic movement. The British-based American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Aubrey Beardsley, and the former Pre-Raphaelites Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Edward Burne-Jones are associated with those movements, with late Burne-Jones and Beardsley both being admired abroad and representing the nearest British approach to European Symbolism. In 1877 James McNeill Whistler, sued the art critic John Ruskin for libel after the critic condemned his painting ""Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket"". Ruskin accused Whistler of ""ask[ing] two hundred guineas for throwing a pot of paint in the public's face."" The jury reached a verdict in favor"
"restored by conservators at Yale. In October 2011 it was confirmed by art historian Dr. Peter Cherry of Trinity College Dublin through x-ray analysis that a portrait found in the UK in the former collection of the 19th-century painter Matthew Shepperson is a previously unknown work by Velázquez. The portrait is of an unidentified man in his fifties or sixties, who could possibly be Juan Mateos, the Master of the Hunt for Velázquez's patron, King Philip IV of Spain. The painting measures 47 x 39 cm and was sold at auction on December 7, 2011, for £3,000,000. Velázquez, through his"
"England, garnered a record price at an auction at Sotheby's in Toronto on 25 February 2002, when Canadian billionaire Kenneth Thomson won the bid at C$5,062,500 including fees (US$3,172,567.50 at the time). Thomson subsequently donated the painting as part of his Thomson Collection to the Art Gallery of Ontario. In 1960, the Ontario Heritage Foundation, Ministry of Citizenship and Culture erected a Provincial Military Plaque dedicated to Sir John Lefroy (1817-1890) on the University of Toronto campus. John Henry Lefroy Lefroy entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in London in 1831 and became a 2nd lieutenant of the Royal Artillery"
"for the rest of his life. He died in Lyndhurst. His painting of ""Callum"" a Dandie Dinmont Terrier hangs in the National Gallery of Scotland. Emms is considered a painter of great ability. According to the American Kennel Club, his painting ""The New Forest Foxhounds"" is valued at an estimated $800,000-$1.2 million. John Emms (artist) John Emms (1844 – 1 November 1912) was an English artist. Emms was born in Blofield, Norfolk the son of artist Henry William Emms. He became an avid hunter and became famous for his paintings of horses, and of dogs, particularly foxhounds and terriers. He"
"of artists overlooked by the Royal Academy. Matters reached a head in 1877, when John Ruskin visited an exhibition of Whistler's ""Nocturne"" painting's at the Grosvenor Gallery. He wrote of the painting ""Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket"", that Whistler was ""asking two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face"". Whistler sued for libel, the case reaching the courts in 1878. The judge in the case caused laughter in the court when, referring to """", he asked Whistler ""Which part of the picture is the bridge?""; the case ended with Whistler awarded"
"become one of the top pieces in the Paintings and Sculpture collection of the National Trust, which oversees approximately 13,500 paintings in properties spread across England and Wales. It is on display at Buckland Abbey, a historic house based on a Cistercian monastery, and then owned by Sir Richard Grenville after the Dissolution of the Monasteries and Sir Francis Drake (who bought it after him). In June 2014, after eight months of work at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, the painting's authenticity was confirmed and its value estimated at £30m. Self-Portrait Wearing a White Feathered Bonnet Self-portrait wearing a white feathered"
"In April 1884 it was sold from the Hilliard collection to Agnew's who sold it on, eight days later, to Sir N. M. Rothschild (later Lord Rothschild). The painting was acquired for the National Gallery in 1954, from the collection of Lord Rothschild, for £30,000, the Art Fund providing a grant of £5000 towards the purchase price. Gainsborough's composition was the inspiration for George Romney's portrait of Sir Christopher and Lady Sykes, known as ""The Evening Walk"". Mr and Mrs William Hallett Mr and Mrs William Hallett is a 1785 painting by Thomas Gainsborough in the collection of the National"