A Newfoundland Off the English Coast
(oil on canvas, 72.5 x 93cm; 28 9/16" x 36 5/8")
by
Edmund Bristow
Bristow (1787 - 1876) was a self-taught English painter, best known in his lifetime for his animal paintings. He was, apparently, a bit of a character; the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography reports that "Bristow was a man of independent eccentric views, would not work to order, and on occasion . . . refused to sell even his finished productions."
His popularity had waned considerably by the time he died.
There is another version of this image, below, which appears on some commercial art-related websites as A Newfoundland Dog on the Seashore by Edmund Bristow. I am no art expert, but to my eye this does not look quite like Bristow's work.
Check out this other Bristow work here at The Cultured Newf: Landseer Newfoundland
