Interior with Dogs (1894 - 96)
by
Thomas Smythe
Smythe (1825 - 1906) was an English painter, known particularly for landscape and animal paintings as well as nostalgic canvases depicting England's rapidly disappearing rural life and customs. He was the younger brother of Edward Smythe (1810 - 1899), also a noted painter.
Personally I'm rather doubtful that any of the dogs depicted here are Newfoundlands, particularly this late in the 19th Century, but this work is claimed, by some, to depict a Newfoundland (presumably the sitting central dog), so here it is. . . .