Anatomy of a Horse Painting
In George Stubbs’s Brood Mares and Foals, which arrived at the Museum in October as a temporary anonymous loan, horses are sympathetically portrayed within... Read More
All Posts by Michael J. Ripps
I studied history at the Universities of Virginia and Cambridge and later read art history at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and the University of Oxford. My doctoral thesis (Oxford), which I defended in the fall of 2010, examined the trade in 17th-century Dutch pictures in the period 1882 to 1914. I'm currently affiliated with the J. Paul Getty Museum's Paintings Department (through May 2012), where I'm assisting in preparations for the Museum's online catalog.