“Riviere achieved immense popularity with the Victorian public for his anecdotal and often humourous pictures of animals. 'Sympathy', showing a little girl sent in disgrace to sit on the stairs while being comforted by her dog, was among the most popular of all. The first version was shown at the Royal Academy in 1878, but the picture exhibited here is a study Riviere made for a second version. Always a supreme technician in his pictures, Riviere also painted historical subjects and portraits, but it was always his animal scenes to which the public most warmly responded.”
[ID: acrylic painting of a borzoi dog with a scarf tied around it's head, on a deep purple-blue background. The dog fur is white and it's looking foward with it's snout pointed down, the scarf is a dark blue with some lighter blue flowers on it. END ID.]
Collection of all my lethal company art I've made so far! Hopefully will make more in the future! These loose and very experimental paintings have really been super enjoyable to make and have pushed my style a lot!