Boston Street Scene (Boston Common)

Bannister made the painting during a visit to Boston in the 1890s.

The painting was bought in 2002 by the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

Bannister uses the diagonal edge of the sidewalk beside the park to draw the eye into the painting, with two women walking with a baby in a stroller in the right foreground.

Traffic is light on the street to the left, just a few horse-drawn carriages, and more people walking on the other side of the street, past buildings of five or more floors.

In contrast to his usual paintings of New England landscapes in a realistic manner with a muted natural palette, similar to the French Barbizon school, this work adopts a much brighter, almost Fauvist, palette of yellows, pinks, reds, greens and blues, and a loose Impressionist style.