wafflycat said:
I've just made a large cauldron of leek & potato soup for lunch. Lovely with a sprinkling of cheese on top and accompanied by a chunk of mixed grain bread. Anyone want any?
Me me me! Please!
Mmm, it's just about lunchtime now I note...
Tdr1nka, if you click on that link, there's a zoom button, the picture is awesome really close up (closer than you'd ever get looking at it in a gallery, without a stepladder.) Especially the detail of the face and the eye.
Apparently when Stubbs was painting it, from life, the horse caught sight of it and thought it was another stallion and attacked it. Stubbs and the stable boy had to fend him off with brushes and things...