Oil on board, 53 by 46 cm

The present painting was probably painted in c.1920 in Perthshire and depicts the artist's wife, the painter Cecile Walton and the student  Anne Finlay. The expert on Eric Robertson, John Kemplay, has written:"[Cecile]…had made a new friend in Anne Finlay, a very attractive and vivacious student…Eric used her more and more to model for him and when he and Cecile rented a house at Crianlarich in Perthshire for May and June of 1920, Anne Finlay was invited to join them for part of the time. Behind the house, there was a waterfall leading to a pool where Eric, Cecile, Anne Finlay and others would bath in the nude together; and it was this setting which figured in a number of paintings and drawings he completed during the two months they spent there." (John Kemplay, op.cit., pp.89-90). A related work, Study of Anne Finlay seated, was sold at Bonhams, Edinburgh, 25 August 2006, lot 1091.