Arab "Bijoux" and Spaniel (date unknown)
by
John E. Ferneley
Ferneley (1782 - 1860) — who is also identified as "John Ferneley Sr.," as his son John Ferneley Jr. was also a well-known painter (to say nothing of his son Claude Lorraine Ferneley, also an artist) — was an English painter primarily of sporting subjects, particularly race- and hunting horses. He was quite well-known and popular in his lifetime.
Although this dog is identified here as a spaniel, keep in mind that in the C19 some dog authorities, such as the veterinarian William Youatt (in The Dog [1845]) and the anonymous author of "The Newfoundland Dog" article in American Agriculturist (1867), indentified Newfoundlands as a type of spaniel. At the same time, this dog is perhaps a little on the small side for a Newf, and the head is certainly not what we would expect in a modern-day Newf, although that doesn't mean too much in the early to mid-19th Century, when "breed type" was a very loose notion, at best.