'Hound I' Edition 1 of 9 Gold Silver & Bronze Bull and bird get along

Bull and bird get along with each other very nicely and the delicacy and scale of the bird contrasts with and amplifies the solid strength of the bull

In the early twentieth century Kauffman lived and worked in the States as a portrait painter and sculptor but nothing else is recorded

London Docks were the heart of the capital pumping goods and people to and from the Empire and the view of that stretch of the river leading up to Tower Bridge would have been familiar to all Londoners

I made this painting at the same time as the Birth of Aphrodite so much of what I said about that painting

oil and watercolour on paper

'Hound I' Edition 1 of 9 Gold Silver & Bronze Bull and bird get along