| 1724 |
Born in Liverpool to a family of curriers (leather workers). |
| 1745 – 53 |
Studies and teaches human anatomy in York.
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| 1754 |
Visits Rome. |
| 1756 – 58 |
Dissects horses at a farmhouse in Lincolnshire, assisted by Mary Spencer, his future spouse. |
| 1757 |
Edmund Burke publishes the Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful. |
| 1758 |
Moves to London. |
| 1759 – 62 |
Paints sporting and animal pictures for aristocratic patrons. |
| 1761 |
Shows his first painting at the Society of Artists exhibition in London; exhibits regularly with them. |
| 1766 |
Publication of The Anatomy of the Horse; elected director of the Society of Artists. |
| 1768 |
Foundation of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, a breakaway institution from and rival of the Society of Artists. |
| 1772 |
Elected president of the Society of Artists. |
| 1775 |
Begins association with Josiah Wedgwood to create enameled paintings on earthenware; exhibits at the Royal Academy for the first time. |
| 1781 |
Elected Royal Academician. |
| 1782 |
Exhibits five enamel paintings at the Royal Academy; they are poorly displayed, causing a four-year estrangement. |
| 1786 |
Returns to the Royal Academy and exhibits the Haymakers and Reapers.
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| 1795 |
Begins work on drawings for his Comparative Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body with That of a Tiger and a Common Fowl. |
| 1797 |
Ozias Humphry records Stubbs’s memoirs. |
| 1803 |
Exhibits at the Royal Academy for the last time. |
| 1804 |
First plates of the Comparative Anatomy issued. |
| 1806 |
Dies at home in London at age eighty-one. |
This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities.
