[ Sporting Magazine ]
The Sporting Magazine (1792 - 1870) is considered the first general sporting magazine, though in its later decades it gave considerable emphasis to fox hunting. But it published all manner of sporting-related material, from news stories to poetry to calendars of upcoming sporting events. The subtitle of this magazine was "Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the Chace, and every other Diversion interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprize and Spirit." [more at Wikipedia]
The September, 1835, issue included an article about noted kennels and stables in Scotland, and the author also remarks on his visit to the home of someone identified only as "Scott." I do not know if this is Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832), the noted Scottish poet and novelist, who had died 3 years earlier, though the writer of this piece does not make clear if he is writing about a recent visit to Scotland or to one that took place in the past. This visit would have had to have been quite some time in the past, for the author of this article makes reference to Scott's "little girls," and while Sir Walter Scott did have three daughters, they would not have been "little girls" in the 1830s: his daughters were born, respectively, in 1799, 1803, and 1805.
Also, the "Scott" mentioned in this multi-part article is referred to once as "the huntsman," so it may well be someone other than the poet and novelist.
At any rate, writing of some paintings in Scott's house, the author makes the following remark:
. . . one of the truest things I have seen is a small oil likeness of Scott's Newfoundland Dog, whom we had observed at the door with one of his little girls: it is done by Chalon, and they actually seem to live on the canvas. (403)
"Chalon" would be either Alfred Edward Chalon (1780 – 1860) or his brother, John James Chalon (1778 – 1854); both were Swiss-born painters who spent most of their adult lives in England, where they painted a variety of subjects, including animal portraits. Or it could be neither of those fellows, but the English painter and lithographer Henry Barnard Chalon (1770 - 1849), the son of Dutch parents and a specialist in animal painting.