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1881 PAINTING by B. Griffiths – One of the earliest depictions of a chow in England

Dated 1881 this is one of the earliest artworks of the Chow breed in England that I have discovered so far. Welsh / English provincial school oil on canvas of a red Chow Chow standing on a rug in an interior by artist B Griffiths. Signed and dated bottom right B Griffiths. 1881. […]

CHOW PAINTINGS OF HORATIO HENRY COULDERY – British 1832-1918

While these precious chow puppies may seem plain and almost pomeranian like in appearance, they are indeed depictions of Chows, as each has a title given by the artist. Couldery also painted a number of actual Pomeranians and they are quite different from the chows, as you can see in the black pom with the […]

Princess Marie Bonaparte and TOPSY The Story of a Golden Haired Chow

Princess Marie Bonaparte sitting on Oscar Nemon’s Sculpture of Topsy, Paris, 1961 First edition published in 1940, TOPSY, is a psychoanalytic tale of the effects of a dog on its owner; the analyst is the great Marie Bonaparte. Only after being told that her chow had cancer did she realize the attachment she developed to […]