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FREDERICH WILHELM HERDT (1790-1840)
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FREDERICH WILHELM HERDT (1790-1840)

SULTAN AND NEPTUNE, THE PROPERTY OF LORD GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL, BRED AT WOBURN

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FREDERICH WILHELM HERDT (1790-1840)
SULTAN AND NEPTUNE, THE PROPERTY OF LORD GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL, BRED AT WOBURN
signed and dated 'F. W. Herdt p.1836' (lower left)
oil on canvas
48 x 67 in. (122 x 170 cm.)
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Lot Essay

Both dogs were bred by John Brooks, gamekeeper at Woburn Abbey and taken to Germany in 1834 when Lord William Russell was sent to Berlin on a diplomatic mission. The present picture was painted in Berlin in 1838.

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