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Stubbs was the son of a
leatherseller and had little formal training for painted but
displayed a natural talent for portraiture. He had a great
interest in anatomy and many of his paints use people and
particularly horses as subjects. Stubbs traveled widely and on a
trip through Morocco he saw a lion hunting a white horse and was
inspired to paint several pictures of the hunt and attack during
their various phases. His skill at painting animals became so
famous that he was sought out by many famous people, one of who
was George Banks the botanist who sales with Captain James Cook,
who wanted to commission him to paint a Kangaroo he brought back
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