Law was another of Francis Newberry’s students at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1890s. He spent six months in Paris, studying at the Académie Delécluse, which ordinarily favoured women students. In turn, he became a teacher at Glasgow for most of his life and held a one-man show at the Glasgow Art Club in 1958. This splendid picture of farmyard pride and contentment was noticed by the Daily Record when it was exhibited in Glasgow in 1923, for being painted ‘with complete success even to the iridescence of the feathers.’