Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
George Stubbs, 1724–1806, British
Title:
Newmarket Heath, with the King's stables rubbing house at the finish of the Beacon Course
Date:
ca. 1765
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.60
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
landscape | studies (visual works) | sports | field | storage | storeroom | house | horse barns | building | racecourse | rural | sky | architectural subject | race (event)
Associated Places:
Europe | United Kingdom | England | Newmarket | Suffolk
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
George Stubbs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015-03-23 - 2015-11-13)

Paul Mellon - A Cambridge Tribute (The Fitzwilliam Museum, 2007-06-12 - 2007-09-23)

The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29)

George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2000-02-14 - 2000-05-15)

George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-04-30 - 1999-09-05)

Stubbs - An Exhibition in Honor of Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1985-04-11 - 1985-05-04)

George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Tate Britain, 1984-10-17 - 1985-01-06)

George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-02-13 - 1985-04-07)

Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
Sir Geoffrey Agnew, Yale's 1700 Mellon Pictures, The Times (London), , April 28, 1977, p. 9, Times Digital Archive

Catalogue : 25 October 1957, Christie's, London, October 25, 1957, p. 25, lot 156, Fiche B51 (YCBA)

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 77-78, no. 76, pl. 29, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Judy Egerton, George Stubbs, 1724-1806, [exhibition] Tate Gallery. , Tate Publishing, London, 1984, pp. 82-3, 84, no. 53, NJ18 St915 E43 (YCBA) +

Elizabeth Einberg, The age of Hogarth, British painters born 1675-1709 , vol. 2, Tate Gallery, London, 1988, p. 162, ND466 T38 1988 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 62, ND466 .G67 (YCBA)

Mac Griswold, I'll build a stairway to paradise : a life of Bunny Mellon, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2022, after p. 272, CT275.M469122 G75 2022

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 167 (v.1), no. 318, pl. 176, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)

Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 42 (v.1), No. 153, pl. 55, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)

Graham Reynolds, Posing on Four Legs, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, Issue No. 4072, April 17, 1981, p. 445, Film S748 (SML) Also Available OnLine in TLS Historical Archive (ORBIS)

Duncan Robinson, Paul Mellon: a Cambridge tribute, , The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge [England], 2007, pp. 32-3, 49, N5220 M552 P36 2007 (YCBA)

Roberta Smith, Horses, Hounds and Men, at Work and at Play, New York Times, August 7, 2015, p. C22, Available online : Proquest .com/nytimes

Basil Taylor, Stubbs, Phaidon, London, 1975, pp. 42, 208, pl. 33, NJ18 St915 T39 1975 (YCBA) +

Basil Taylor, Stubbs, Phaidon, London, 1971, pp. 42, 208, pl. 33, NJ18 St915 +T39 1971B (YCBA)

Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 78, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA)

Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 45 (v.1), no. 171, pl. 55, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
This small study of the rubbing house at Newmarket was made in preparation for several paintings of individual racehorses represented at the famous racecourse, including Turf, with Jockey Up, at Newmarket (shown nearby). These buildings were used to saddle horses and then groom them after exercises or races. It is a testament to Stubbs’s penetrating vision that the small brick building was scrutinized with the same care and precision as a horse or jockey. It was probably painted in his studio from graphite or chalk sketches made at Newmarket and was later owned by the sporting artist James Ward, whose work is exhibited elsewhere on this floor. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2022
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:21167