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George Stubbs
was born in 1724 in Liverpool, son of a currier and one of five children. He had a minimum of formal instruction: in 1739 he was briefly a pupil of the minor painter Hamlet Winstanley.
At the age of 30, in 1754 he went to
Italy by boat. He is said to have gone with no enthusiasm for Italian art, but with a desire to
confirm his view that nature, not art, was the only source of inspiration and improvement On the return journey he made a stop in Marocco. It is believed that a scene he saw there inspired his later picture Horse Attacked by a Lion (1762-1765).
http://www.abcgallery.com/S/stubbs/stubbsbio.html
Again I am merely highlighting that Italy^^^Has had vast amounts of Venatios in the circus (circle arena) as in lion vs tiger match's... so George stubbs painting originates on the cause of Italys culture, not Indias or British implimations, so it had nothing to do with the Bristish Raj war, which I pointed out on
Frank Mycleans book who was quoting the
Medical Times who in terms was quoting Martials records who mentioned only a single account.
There were still alot of matchs done in Italy, shown again in here...
The Gentleman's Magazine
Fight In Italy Verona a lion defeats tiger
Mr. Bolton said that a friend of his saw, in the circus at Verona, a battle between a lion, and a tiger, a horse, and an ass. The tiger at first shewed symptoms of fear, and wished to decline the battle with the lion. He fought however at last with great fury j but, though he foiled the lion for a time by his alertness, soon yielded on a close contact to the other's matchless strength. The horse was dreadfully terrified from the first, and became an easy conquest. The ass, the last attacked, was all the time quite unconcerned, browzing on the ground, and when at length assailed, bit and kicked with great fury, but in the end fell. The lion chiefly used his paw, with which he struck tremendous blows..
http://books.google.com/books?id=y2...ue+lion+tiger+fight&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html
~A. Dodd and A. Smith, 1834