Canvas painting brings together centuries of portraiture, landscapes and still life rendered in oil across British, Dutch and French schools.
Several portraits preserve the exact likeness of seventeenth-century lapdogs and Victorian spaniels who clearly sat more still than the horses.
![17th Century Portrait Circle of Michael Dahl,of Sir William Cowper [1639-1706]](https://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/photosnew/dealer_countryhousefineart/dealer_countryhousefineart_full_1525617097668-7609063232.jpg)
