GILPIN, Sawrey
(b. 1733, Carlisle, d. 1807, London)

A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel in a Landscape

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Oil on canvas, 64 x 76 cm
Private collection

The King Charles spaniel was a popular breed among the nobility and gentry in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The history of the breed, however, dates back to the seventeenth century, and Charles I is recorded as having kept a small spaniel named Rogue during his captivity at Carisbrooke Castle. However it is with his son, Charles II, that this breed is most closely associated.




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