Animal painter whose vast, muscular canvases of horses and cattle made her a nineteenth-century celebrity.
Monumental
Subversive
Nature & Ecology
Fun fact
She held a police permit to wear trousers so she could sketch in slaughterhouses and livestock markets, renewing it every six months.
How she made it
Academic oil built from hundreds of on-site anatomical studies in pencil and oil sketch. She dissected animals to learn the musculature, then scaled the drawings onto huge canvases with a grid before glazing coat and hide in fine, directional strokes.
