During London Art Week, 3-10 July 2015, the neighbouring Old Master galleries of Rafael Valls and Tomasso Brothers Fine Art will present a complimentary brace of exhibitions depicting a grand collection of artists’ animals: The Painter’s Menagerie and The Sculptor’s Menagerie respectively. From an exotic rhinoceros carved in coloured marble to an early study of a mouse by Jan Brueghel the Younger, the featured animals hail from all corners of the globe, and encompass the variety of wild and domestic creatures that have captured the imagination of artists for millennia. Works date from classical antiquity to the 19th century, by European and British Old Master painters and sculptors, the two fields in which these galleries excel. Both exhibitions are bound to delight the casual observer as well as keen lovers of fauna. Take the horse: at Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, a bronze Écorché Horse by Francesco
