A Pair of Hunters, Held by a Groom, with a Newfoundland Dog by a Lake
by
Daniel Clowes
Clowes (1774 - 1829) was an English painter known primarily for his sporting and animal paintings.
This painting is undated, though presumably is from the first quarter of the 19th Century, and, as the detail below makes clear, shows a Newfoundland dog that is fairly typical, in terms of coat texture and tail (though perhaps a bit light in structure), of Newfoundlands at the time. What is unusual and noteworthy here is that the Newfoundland depicted here is black. This is one of the earliest images I have found that depicts a Newfoundland that is not black-and-white.
