In 1772, Joseph Banks commissioned the foremost painter of animals in England, George Stubbs, to paint a dingo and a kangaroo. To our modern eyes, the paintings lack the vitality and strength of the animals we are familiar with in Australia. The kangaroo more closely resembles a rodent than a bipedal marsupial; the dingo’s glassy-eyed stare lacks any animation.
— Read more: It’s Australia vs England in battle over Stubbs masterpieces Stubbs was renowned for how well he painted horses and dogs. Even today, his paintings capture the lifelike individual essence of his subject. So why did his paintings of the dingo and kangaroo — some of the earliest European representations of Australian animals — look so strange? ‘To compare it… would be impossible’ Stubbs had not travelled with the 1768 Endeavour expedition to the South Seas.
The animals became the two most associated with Australia — adding greatly to Great Britain’s sense of national pride as the conqueror of new worlds. Read more: Terra nullius interruptus: Captain James Cook and absent presence in First Nations art Stubbs’ kangaroo painting set the standard for future representations of the animal until well into the 19th century, serving as a model for engravings and illustrations used in scientific and popular publications.
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