Muss-Arnolt, Gustav (American 1858 - 1927), Setter on Point, 1923, oil on canvas, 7.25 x 10 inches, signed and dated lower right, framed in a period wood frame with Acanthus leaf reliefs in the corners measuring 10 x 13 inches, Gustav Muss Arnolt was one of a small group of American painters, among them Percival Rosseau and Edmund Osthaus, who specialized in the depiction of sporting dogs. Born in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, these artists captured the excitement of dogs in the field, catering to a newly wealthy group of sportsmen who actively collected their work.