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How troubled artist Louis Wain accidentally invented the pet cat – before descent into debt and delusion

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HE doesn’t know it – or care – but that moggie lying on the windowsill soaking up the sun may not have been there without the help of a Victorian illustrator.

There are 12million domestic cats in Britain today but before Louis Wain’s drawings gave them playful human characteristics the nation wouldn’t give them house room.

In new film The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain, Benedict Cumberbatch plays the title character, the talented but until recently near-forgotten artist who brought the animals to life and planted in the public’s mind the idea of owning a pet puss.

The A-list actor said of working with the felines on screen: “You can fall in love with them and treat them as a little baby.

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