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Mister Stubbs

Anthony Jennings

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Description:Painter, lover, anatomist, spy … George Stubbs is one of Britain’s most popular artists, his paintings of horses commanding prices over £20m. This novel charts his beginnings as an ambitious young painter and a partisan of Bonnie Prince Charlie, as he struggles to survive amid the cut-throat intrigues of the exiled Jacobite court in Rome.In 1746, Stubbs watches anxiously as the rebel Jacobite army retreats northwards to Scotland, where they will suffer catastrophic defeat at Culloden, followed by savage reprisals from the vengeful British government. Stubbs has friends in prison accused of treason, facing torture and execution. Meanwhile he struggles to forge a career as a painter, and makes ends meet as an anatomist, dissecting criminals, dogs and horses, or cadavers stolen from graveyards for the benefit of the medical students at York Hospital.Eight years later Stubbs arrives in Rome – the home of the Jacobite court in exile, where the supporters of the Stuarts and the agents of the British government are fighting a secret and deadly espionage war. Has Stubbs come to Italy to study the Old Masters, as he claims, and learn the art of neoclassical painting? Or is there some more mysterious purpose to his journey?In cobbled back streets and down-at-heel inns, Renaissance palazzos and majestic churches, the shadow-war is played out. Cryptographers read ciphers and secret inks, spies rob and kill the enemy’s agents, seeking to uncover the plans for a new rebellion, and to track the elusive Prince Charles. Cardinals, freemasons and connoisseurs, artists and travelling aristocrats are caught up in deadly plots for the two parties, closely watched by the Holy Roman Inquisition.George Stubbs is famous as Britain’s greatest painter of horses, and for his revolutionary series of engravings, The Anatomy of the Horse. To produce this work, he laboured for eighteen months in a lonely farmhouse in Yorkshire, with no company except that of his common-law wife, slaughtering nine horses one after the other, and making drawings as he went. Renowned for his physical strength, it is said that he sometimes carried the cadavers of horses up two flights of stairs to his dissecting room. This novel brilliantly recreates the real George Stubbs from the few biographical fragments we possess: as a Jacobite spy, a lover, and a great painter in the making.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mister Stubbs. To get started finding Mister Stubbs, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 2024

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Description: Painter, lover, anatomist, spy … George Stubbs is one of Britain’s most popular artists, his paintings of horses commanding prices over £20m. This novel charts his beginnings as an ambitious young painter and a partisan of Bonnie Prince Charlie, as he struggles to survive amid the cut-throat intrigues of the exiled Jacobite court in Rome.In 1746, Stubbs watches anxiously as the rebel Jacobite army retreats northwards to Scotland, where they will suffer catastrophic defeat at Culloden, followed by savage reprisals from the vengeful British government. Stubbs has friends in prison accused of treason, facing torture and execution. Meanwhile he struggles to forge a career as a painter, and makes ends meet as an anatomist, dissecting criminals, dogs and horses, or cadavers stolen from graveyards for the benefit of the medical students at York Hospital.Eight years later Stubbs arrives in Rome – the home of the Jacobite court in exile, where the supporters of the Stuarts and the agents of the British government are fighting a secret and deadly espionage war. Has Stubbs come to Italy to study the Old Masters, as he claims, and learn the art of neoclassical painting? Or is there some more mysterious purpose to his journey?In cobbled back streets and down-at-heel inns, Renaissance palazzos and majestic churches, the shadow-war is played out. Cryptographers read ciphers and secret inks, spies rob and kill the enemy’s agents, seeking to uncover the plans for a new rebellion, and to track the elusive Prince Charles. Cardinals, freemasons and connoisseurs, artists and travelling aristocrats are caught up in deadly plots for the two parties, closely watched by the Holy Roman Inquisition.George Stubbs is famous as Britain’s greatest painter of horses, and for his revolutionary series of engravings, The Anatomy of the Horse. To produce this work, he laboured for eighteen months in a lonely farmhouse in Yorkshire, with no company except that of his common-law wife, slaughtering nine horses one after the other, and making drawings as he went. Renowned for his physical strength, it is said that he sometimes carried the cadavers of horses up two flights of stairs to his dissecting room. This novel brilliantly recreates the real George Stubbs from the few biographical fragments we possess: as a Jacobite spy, a lover, and a great painter in the making.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mister Stubbs. To get started finding Mister Stubbs, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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