Freeman, the Earl of Clarendon's gamekeeper, with a dying doe and hound
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.The coup de grâce will be administered by the gamekeeper to a doe wounded on the estate of the second Earl of Clarendon, one of Stubbs’s late patrons. The earl kept a number of exotic species as well as a herd of three to four hundred deer in his park near Watford. Under a slightly different title, the painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1801. The triangular composition is uncommon for Stubbs, who generally preferred linear arrangements. Freeman’s enigmatic gaze is evocative. As a gamekeeper, he surely bore frequent witness to moments of birth and death.
Artwork Details
- Title: Freeman, the Earl of Clarendon's gamekeeper, with a dying doe and hound
- Artist: George Stubbs (British, Liverpool 1724–1806 London)
- Date: 1800
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 40 × 50 in. (101.6 × 127 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings