Briton Riviere Sympathy, c. 1878, oil on canvas, 45.1 x 37.5 cm, the Tate Gallery, London. Riviere was an Irish artist born in London. He 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 conforted by her dog, was among the most popular of all. 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.

Briton Riviere

Sympathy, c. 1878, oil on canvas, 45.1 x 37.5 cm, the Tate Gallery, London.

Riviere was an Irish artist born in London. He 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 conforted by her dog, was among the most popular of all. 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.

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