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Article: City artist who had his eye on the mane chance.(Features)
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- Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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Byline: with Joe Riley
SALFORD may have produced L.S. Lowry and his pictures of matchstick men, and Bradford David Hockney and his lesser clad vision of the male torso.
But Liverpool's claim t o international centre stage in fine art is far more muscular.
George Stubbs, born 1724, was the son of a dresser of tanned animal hides.
From childhood he would have been familiar with the butchered carcasses of animals.
No wonder that when ...