Today on the Web, canine publications, and just on the street, you can see cute spaniels with sad, clever eyes of the Cavalier King Charles breed. But it is especially interesting to contemplate the ancient paintings of the Renaissance and Enlightenment (and later), written by such masters as Anthony Van Dyck, Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds Sargent, and others. The canvases, whose age exceeds several hundred years, depict beautiful high society, and sometimes royal people, and at their feet are located exactly like modern Cavalier King Charles Spaniels of a dog.