A man stands with one arm resting over the back of a chestnut-brown horse as two women approach the animal in this horizontal portrait painting set in a landscape. The people have pale skin, dark eyes, and ash-brown or gray hair. At the center of the composition, the cleanshaven man stands with his body angled to our left as he looks off in that direction. He has a rounded nose, a dimple in his slight double chin, and he smiles faintly. A black tricorn hat sits on his gray hair, which curls up over his ears. His uniform has a long, pearl-white vest over a high, bright-white collar. His…
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Captain Samuel Sharpe Pocklington with His Wife, Pleasance, and possibly His Sister, Frances

George Stubbs (British, 1724 - 1806)

1769

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 100.2 x 126.6 cm (39 7/16 x 49 13/16 in.) ; framed: 120.7 x 146.4 x 7.6 cm (47 1/2 x 57 5/8 x 3 in.)
Culture
British
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Charles S. Carstairs in memory of her husband, Charles Stewart Carstairs
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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