For Divers Reasons: Two setters and a Boston terrier on a barge

The present work dates from when Maud Earl had moved to the States. Although it was painted in 1917 after she had begun a phase of Oriental inspired paintings, it is consistent with her second stylistic period from 1900 to 1915 in which her brushwork was looser and she exhibited a freer handling of paint.

For more information on the artist, see lot 10.