SYMPATHY, 1877 - Girl and Dog Painting by Briton Riviere

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Stock #: 1164539

Type: Postcard

Era: Continental Chrome

Artist: Briton Riviere

Publisher: The Medici Society

Size: 4.25" x 6" (11 x 15.25 cm)

Publisher's Series #: P.C. 1768

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Oil on canvas, 47 x 39 in. Briton Riviere, R.A. (1840-1920) was born in London and came from a family of painters. He studied at Cheltenham College where his father was Drawing Master and went on to take a degree at Oxford in 1866. Riviere was best known for his paintings of animals, often humorous but mostly sentimental in treatment. Sympathy, a painting of his daughter, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1878 and became widely known through engravings. There is an oil study for the painting in the Tate Gallery. By courtesy of Royal Holloway College, University of London.

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