Artist
Matthew Cotes Wyatt
Matthew Cotes Wyatt is a Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Finnish National Gallery.
Matthew Cotes Wyatt loved turning ordinary life into something grand. He started as a painter but swapped brushes for marble when a dog he knew became famous, and he couldn’t resist sculpting it life-size. His statue *Bashaw, 'the faithful friend of man'* (1834) is a towering hound in bronze, sitting pretty in London’s Green Park like a VIP with no agenda.
Why he fits here: Scroll to *Bashaw*—it’s the kind of work that makes you grin at a museum and still talk about later over coffee.
Works by Matthew Cotes Wyatt
Collections represented
Museum
Finnish National Gallery is the largest art museum institution of Finland. It consists of the Ateneum, an art museum; Kiasma, a contemporary art museum; and the Sinebrychoff Art Museum, a historic…