The top 10 animal portraits in art

Fabritius's Goldfinch, Hirst's pickled lamb, Durer's rhino ... here are the finest (and the absolute corniest) artworks of the animal kingdom in all its majesty

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In this subtle and lifelike painting, Fabritius concentrates on a pet bird with a fascination at once emotional and scientific. He paints the bird's feathers in free, almost impressionistic brush strokes. Yet there's something sad about it, something forlorn. Fabritius himself was to die young. His painted bird is lonely and vulnerable in its tamed beauty.

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