Your favorite model(s) right now, max 5 .

Two more wonderful top fives!
Adam, I love the choice of the ELC border collies, definitely worthy of your top 5!
Beautiful choices too Loon, I love that humpback whale!

A joy to watch your favorites, Loon !!!

So differnet and so good pictures and reasons for your choices

It’s wonderful to see everyone’s favourites.

I like the personal stories behind them too. George, who is the man in the George Stubbs painting? It’s a beautiful screen. I like Paragon a lot too. Not my favourite Breyer sculpt, but this repaint is amazing.

Jolie: A great story behind the white-sided dolphin; I can imagine how happy you were when you finally found it. Clearly an excellent figure if someone dared to steal it!

Adam: It must have been so wonderful to find your Schleich elephants again. I lost some animals when I was young and I still hope that one day they will turn up in my parents house, however unlikely. Lots of farm animals in your top 5!

Loon: I agree about the hyena, it’s a wonderful figure even if it isn’t super realistic. The MBA humpback is one of my favourites too. I think it’s the large fins and the body that suggest power and movement.

I can't contribute my favourite 5 to this topic. It's too difficult, they are all favourites!

rogerpgvg wrote:

George, who is the man in the George Stubbs painting?

Good question! He didn't write that fact down

Here's what one biography page has to say :

"Portrait of a Gentleman upon a Grey Hunter is comparable to a number of paintings in Stubbs’s oeuvre in subject-matter and composition and has a particular resemblance to Stubbs’s self-portrait on enamel of 1772.
According to some scholars, the similarity in the pose of the gentleman, the horse and the background suggests that the rider in Portrait of a Gentleman upon a Grey Hunter is a relative of Stubbs’s or at least a close friend; the open demeanour and informal pose suggests that the sitter ‘belongs to a circle in which Stubbs felt at home’.
In 1972, Basil Taylor proposed that ‘the man’s features show such a strong resemblance to the artist’s, while being considerably younger, that one is bound to consider the possibility that the picture may represent his natural son, George Townly Stubbs’. Unfortunately, no portrait of Townly Stubbs exists, so the theory is impossible to corroborate and must remain speculative.
Nonetheless, the painting is considered as a highly significant embodiment of all the elements that Stubbs is famous for; an accurate depiction of a horse, a strong representation of a figure and a picturesque landscape acting as a harmonious backdrop."

And here's the real portrait, cos I realise I forgot to link that in my earlier post!

Thanks, I assumed that it was a famous person. But that's interesting, because it suggests that the painting is more about the horse than the rider.