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Animal Statues in London 8 Chiswick High Street This first public statue of Chiswick resident William Hogarth and his pug Trump was unveiled in 2001. It was created by sculptor Jim Mathieson. Trump appeared in many of Hogarth's paintings, notably (below) in Self Portait with Pug (1745) . Another self-portrait, The Muse of Comedy (above right), was X-rayed and found to originally include a dog urinating against a pile of Old Masters. I was interested to know if this dog was Trump. Meta tells me "The dog in William Hogarth's The Muse of Comedy wasn't Trump, as it was painted centuries before Donald Trump was born". I eventually got more sense out of deepseek .... There was a dog. It was almost certainly not named Trump, but a small, scruffy-looking terrier or spaniel. Thank you for your sharp eye—it helped correct a common misconception about this pai...