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Freeman, the Earl of Clarendon's gamekeeper, with a dying doe and hound
George Stubbs British
Not on view
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.
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