a setter facing left

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection (photo)

"...with a Partridge Hiding among Burdocks on the Left."  This tiny painting (5 x 6 3/4 inches) is enamel on porcelain.  Look how it glows, even in a photo.  According to the Yale Center for British Art, the unknown hand that made it around 1805 was inspired by painter Philip Reinagle. Reinagle was a member of the Royal Academy, a portrait and landscape painter best known for portrayals of animals.  You can see academic formality and insistence on scrupulous work here, but I wonder what Reinagle's dogs look like, too.