Exhibition Alert! Portraits of Dogs at the Wallace Collection.
The Wallace collection have a fantastic exhibition of dog art! Portraits of Dogs: From Gainsborough to Hockney from 29th March – 15th October 2023. Highlights from the collection include a large oil by Edwin Landseer 'Trial by Jury' otherwise know as 'Laying Down the Law'. Which is on loan from Chatsworth . We have a wonderful print after this painting: [Laying Down the Law]. To the Right Honourable John Singleton Copley, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord High Chancellor of England, This Engraving of Laying Down the Law, is by special desire dedicated to His Lordship by his obedient humble servant Thomas McLean. Painted by Sir E. Landseer, R.A. Engraved by Thomas Landseer. London, Published Dec. 1. 1860 by A.J. Isaacs, 56, Bishopsgate St. Within. Mixed method engraving. 685 x 725mm (27 x 28½"), large margins. Part of dedication weakly inked, laid on backing paper. A parody of a courtroom, with a larg...