# Two Bay Hunters in a Paddock [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [STUBBS, George]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on panel, 90 x 137 cm ## Commentary The composition of two horses communing face to face seems to have increasingly interested Stubbs in the late 1780s and early 1790s. The tranquil and serenely bucolic setting – a paddock in spring, with clumps of burdock in the foreground, a low paling fence curving round to a thatched shelter and distant hills beyond – is equally typical of Stubbs's preferred setting for his portraits of horses in the latter part of his career: the mood reflective and calm, the emphasis being on the noble dignity of the animals themselves. ## Related artworks - [A Dark Bay Thoroughbred in a Landscape]() - [Bird]() - [Haymaking]() - [King Charles Spaniel]() - [Lion Devouring a Horse]() - [Man]() - [Portrait of a Dark Brown and White Newfoundland Spaniel]() - [The Milbanke and Melbourne Families]() - [The Pointer]() - [Whistlejacket]() - [William Anderson with Two Saddle-horses]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()