Brooks Eating Sausage, (painting).

Brooks Eating Sausage, (painting).

Hayward, F. Harold, 1867-1945, painter.

Brooks Eating Sausage, (painting).

Oil on masonite board.

20 1/4 x 24 in.

A seated portrait of George Brooks, his right arm resting on a table beside him, his attention directed to a sausage that he holds up in front of him as he prepares to cut it with a small knife. On the wall in the background there are pots and pans, and a shelf.

Portrait male -- Brooks, George -- Knee length

Recreation -- Leisure -- Eating & Drinking

Architecture interior -- Domestic -- House

English, Margaret,

This is possibly the same painting noted in the "Monitor" of June 26, 1896 (IAP record no. 74400037), although a charcoal sketch exists, possibly a practice sketch, showing another version of the same subject.

Groh, Helen B. (Hayward Biographer), 2005.

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