concept:era early modern
Whistlejacket
Oil on canvas (c.1762) by George Stubbs. National Gallery, London. A life-size portrait of Whistlejacket, an Arabian racehorse owned by the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, rearing against an empty ochre ground.
Scholarly Significance
Stubbs's masterwork and the largest most ambitious horse portrait in Western art. The horse is the sole subject with no landscape or rider.