Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, R.A.

Joseph Hogarth (1801–c. 1879), Haymarket, by 1874;

Private collection, USA;

Whence sold, Marlborough, Bonhams Skinner, 14 November 2024, lot 32.

London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Works of the Late Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., January – 14 March 1874, no. 374.

The Works of the Late Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., exh. cat., London 1874, p. 28, no. 374;

A. Graves, Catalogue of the works of the late Sir Edwin Landseer, London 1874, p. 5, under no. 31.

Painted around 1817, when the artist was fifteen years old, this picture is one of a number which depict the bull-terrier, Brutus, which belonged to W.W. Simpson, the artist's friend and patron. We are grateful to Mr Richard Ormond for endorsing the attribution to Landseer.