NEW YORK, NY.- A painting by Maud Earl showing the black Labrador Peter of Faskally, father of 32 field trial champions and the original blood line for all present day Chocolate Labradors, is to be a highlight of the ‘Dogs in Show & Field: The Fine Art Sale’ on 16th February 2011 at Bonhams New York. The painting, entitled Portrait of the Black Labrador ‘Peter of Faskally’ holding a cock pheasant, with his mate Dungavel Jet in a landscape, is estimated to sell for $60,000-80,000. Highlights from this sale, including this painting, will be on view in Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street 23-27th January prior to the auction in New York. Owned by the Butter family of Faskally Estate, near Pitlochry, Peter of Faskally was feted as a champion at the beginning of the 20th century. The Butter’s were very adept gundog trainers and in the decade running up to the First World War Labrador Retrievers owned and trained b