Eos

A bronze model of Prince Albert’s greyhound Eos (1833-44) standing on a rectangular pink granite plinth on the terrace at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. The model is based on a painting of Eos by Sir Edwin Landseer (1803-73). Prince Albert is known to have worked on the model himself together with the sculptor John Francis. In her diary entry for 1st November 1844, Queen Victoria wrote ‘…we walked down to the Kennels, where Francis is getting on with the model of good ‘Eos’, which is very good and like. Albert directs everything, and also works himself at it’. Landseer’s portait of Eos served as a model for this bronze made for Osborne House, and a second made for Windsor Home Park (RCIN 98163).