The article provides information on Ottoman Armenian merchant Philip John Nigohrus, also called Phillipo, who was identified as the man in the painting by George Stubb of the Duke of Ancaster's grey horse at Creswell Crags in England. It sheds light into the cultural and commercial links between the Ottoman Empire and Great Britain in the 18th-century and Phillipo's mercantile connections to the Society of Arts, particularly the importation of Eastern horses, as reflected by the painting.