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A spaniel is a type of gun dog. Spaniels were especially bred to flush game out of denser brush. By the late 17th century, spaniels had been specialized into water and land breeds. The extinct English
English Cocker Spaniels are small spaniels
A Welsh Springer Spaniel on the beach
King Charles Spaniels, photographed in 1915, one of the smaller breeds, are primarily lap dogs
A 16th-century drawing of a hawking party with spaniels
King Charles Spaniel
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The King Charles Spaniel is a small dog breed of the spaniel type. In 1903, The Kennel Club combined four separate toy spaniel breeds under this single title. The other varieties merged into this bree
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…and sometimes deep brown, or black on the face and breast, with a tan spot over each eye. The English spaniel is a superior and very pure breed. The King Charles is a small variety of the spaniel used as a lapdog. The water spaniels, large and small, differ from the common spaniel only in the roughness of their…
'King Charles' Colour
Portrait of Queen Mary I and King Philip by Hans Eworth (1558)
Five children of King Charles I of England (1637) by Anthony van Dyck, featuring a spaniel of the era at the bottom right
Portrait of a King Charles Spaniel, by Jean-Baptiste Huet 1778