This is a unique opportunity to see works by the great animal painter George Stubbs (1724 ﾖ 1806) that were commissioned by John and William Hunter, tow of the most important medical figures of the British Enlightenment.

Brought together for the first time in more than two hundred years, these paintings include the Stubbs 'Rhinoceros', owned by John Hunter, which is now part of the collection of the Royal College of Surgeons in London.

The exhibition will look at the Hunter brothers' lesser-known interest in the natural world and its exotic inhabitants, from the familiar horses to the yak, rhinoceros and moose, and the brother's relationship with Stubbs, sometimes described as 'the greatest painter-scientist since Leonardo da Vinci'.

Kate Richardson (media@gla.ac.uk)

First published: 8 June 2004