Images Dated 2010 September

Laying Down the Law

Landseer helped popularise anthropomorphism in art and this is a copy of one of his best-known examples. Sometimes called 'Trial by Jury', the Poodle was owned by Count D'Orsay and has been identified as playing the role of Lord Brougham. Landseer's painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1840 and aquired by the 6th Duke of Devonshire, who had his own Blenheim Spaniel, Bony, inserted behind the Greyhound, as can be seen in this later copy.

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Mrs. Santer's English Springer Spaniels

Canvas 21 x 15.5 ins.
The three dogs are Ch.Dry Toast, in the foreground, Ch.Winning Number of Solway and Ch.Nimble of Hamsey. Dry Toast was the model used by Royal Doulton for the English Springer introduced into their'Champions Dogs' series in 1938. Nimble won the Challenge Certificate at Crufts in 1936 and '37 and Winning Number won in 1932 and '35. Many generations back, Winning Number is in the Pedigrees of several winning dogs today. Dry Toast had winning progeny worldwide and is behind famous dogs owned by Mrs. Howard, Lady Lambe and Miss Francis and because of the bitches he was used on, is behind many successful Field Trial dogs as well as show dogs.

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