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My favourite painting Jamie Hambro

Jamie Hambro is the chairman of the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association

Landseer’s animal paintings are among my favourites, this one in particular. My childhood was full of incorrigible Jack Russells, one of which conducted. He could be an old sea dog telling tales of foreign adventures or how he lost an eye in a street fight. He looks a great character whose wandering days are over and who now occupies the chair nearest the fire most of the time

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