Medium: oil
Size: 39 x 69 cm
Exhibited: Royal Academy, 1882
This painting measuring 39 by 69 cm, was auctioned at Sotheby’s in Billinghurst, West Sussex on 28 July 1998, fetching £2,070. The picture is reproduced in the auction catalogue.
It was offered for auction again at Bonham’s of Knightsbridge on 12 April 2011, but did not sell.
Athenaeum, 6 May 1882:
It has not a little humour and spirit. It depicts two girls in a garden where a Skye terrier is divided in mind as to whether he will go to one or the other temptress. Behind we have the outside wall of an old house and a garden.
Eyre Crowe (1824-1910) 