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Pencil drawing of the Royal dogs "Hector, Nero, and Dash with the parrot, Lory" attributable to Thomas Landseer ARA (1795-1880) after Sir Edwin Landseer RA (English, 1802-1873) An absolutely superb pencil drawing of the Royal dogs "Hector, Nero, and Dash with the parrot, Lory" attributable to Thomas Landseer ARA (1795-1880) after Sir Edwin Landseer RA (English, 1802-1873). This famous portrait of the Royal pets depicts the greyhound Nero, Hector, the Scottish deerhound, Dash the spaniel and Lory, the parrot seen cracking nuts, was painted by Landseer in 1838 for Queen Victoria. The Queen considered Landseer work as “the most beautiful thing imaginable”. It was later dubbed by the Queen as being 'too beautiful' (Journal, 4 May 1838). English, circa 1840.
Nero may be the large greyhound that the Duchess of Kent is documented as having acquired in 1836. Hector, when 'quite a puppy', had been gifted to Victoria, then Princess of Kent, in June 1835 by Lawrence Dundas; although the Princess reported that the hound quickly grew to a considerable size, she also noted that he was 'as gentle as a lamb, and very playful' but incurred the jealousy of the erstwhile favourite, Dash.
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