Portraits of Favorites (1851)
by
George W. Horler
Horler (1823 - 1895) was an English painter, primarily of sporting and animal subjects, along with landscapes. Like Sir Edwin Landseer, he frequently painted scenes set in the Scottish Highlands.
Is the black dog in this painting a Newfoundland? Hard to say for certain, though it does appear larger than the other dogs, and given that there was more variability in the breed in the mid-19th Century — indeed, breed standards as we know them were several decades off when this painting was made — it is within the realm of possibility.