To our modern eyes, the paintings lack the vitality and strength of the animals we are familiar with in Australia.
So why did his paintings of the dingo and kangaroo — some of the earliest European representations of Australian animals — look so strange?
"Pumpkin with a Stable-lad," a 1774 George Stubbs painting of the racehorse Pumpkin.
But Stubbs’ kangaroo more closely resembles the rat-like Gerbua of Banks’ description than the creature we know today.
My paintings of unfamiliar landscapes in Scotland and Ireland always seem to depict trees that look like eucalypts.
Persons:
Joseph Banks, George Stubbs, Stubbs, ’ Stubbs, Banks, King George III, James Cook, “, King, ”, Sydney Parkinson, Kharbine, Captain James Cook, it’s, Janelle Evans
Organizations:
CNN, England, Endeavour, Royal, Society of Artists, Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, The University of Melbourne, Creative
Locations:
England, Australia, Tahiti, Great Britain, London, Nations, Banks, Scotland, Ireland