Borzoi in art

More on the painting
Also Andrus Kozlov has wrote on this subject; "This dog is not in any way the Champion Velsk. The painting is dated 1890, but Velsk was born in 1895. In addition, Velsk did not have such a spot on the right side.
In 1890 Duchess of Newcastle had only two adult borzois (Ivan II, import from France and the bitch Spain). I think on the picture it's Ivan II.


Link; More of his paintings.
There are many of us that have admired the Russian paintings of days gone by. The artist that illustrates the life of Russian Aristocracy's life in such a romantic and beautiful way is named VladimirPervuninskiy. He was born in 1957 in the village Chelyabinsk, and Graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Painting of V.I.Surikov in 1989.