Image: Glasgow Museums Resource Centre.

Like the oreads, the dryads were a set of female deities from Greek myth – nymphs who inhabited oak trees, and who were traditionally shy and retiring, except when in the presence of their patron, the hunter-goddess Artemis.

• Media: oil on canvas.
• Dimensions: 292 x 330 mm (0.10 m²), unframed.
• History: 1928 or earlier; exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1928 (no. 496); 1940, bequeathed to Glasgow Museums by Mrs A. J. MacLaren, ID number 2186.
• Location: Glasgow Museums Resource Centre.