These Livestock Portraits Were the Ultimate Displays of Wealth in 19th-Century Britain

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The exaggerated paintings of landowners with their oversized cows, pigs, and sheep were the Instagram status-symbol photos of yesteryear

In the 1800s, wealthy British landowners commissioned over-the-top, greatly exaggerated paintings of themselves with their livestock.

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