Physical Energy by G F Watts, in Hyde Park in London.

This statute of a man on horseback, executed with deliberate coarseness and vigour, and cast in bronze, exists in three versions:  one in London (pictured), one in Cape Town (South Africa) and one in Harare (Zimbabwe).  The original plaster also survives, and is on display at the Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey.

My photograph doesn’t show the detail of the statute, but I love the way the rising ground behind it in this view makes it appear to stand in countryside, although it is only moments away from the London traffic in the Bayswater Road and Knightsbridge.

An English cousin of the painter James McNeill Whistler wrote to him about their relationship.  Whistler didn’t reply (his brother did).

But when he got the letter he doodled a little sketch on it.  A man.  A hat.  A horse.

Is this how he imagined his correspondent?  Or himself?  Or was this sketch nothing to do with the letter at all?

124 years on, your guess is as good as mine.