This Oli on Canvas painting showcases the artist use of light giving inviting the viewer to draw closer surrounding and immersing them with the feeling they are in an 18th century Scottish tavern overlooking what might be a business deal. Believed to be have been painted by Alexander Fraser Fraser was born in Edinburgh on 7 April 1786. His father was Alexander Fraser, a grocer, and his mother, Madgalane Davie.

He studied painting under John Graham (1754-1817) at the Trustees Drawing Academy of Edinburgh. His fellow pupils included William Allan (1782–1850), John Burnet (1784–1868), and David Wilkie (1785–1841). He began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1810 and moved to London in 1813. David Wilkie had preceded him to London and he employed Fraser as an assistant to paint details and still life in his pictures. Of Wilkie's many followers, Fraser was the most capable. Many of his paintings were humorous and on a small scale, for example, The Scotch Fair (c. 1834) or Music Makers. On 30 June 1826, he married Janet William Moir in Edinburgh, and Alexander Fraser was their son. In 1840, Fraser was elected an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy, an institution he had helped to found. In 1842, his Naaman Cured of the Leprosy obtained the premium at the British Institution for best picture of the year. From 1848, ill health prevented him from painting and he ceased exhibiting at the Royal Academy.

He died at Wood Green, Hornsey, London on 15 February 1865 and was buried in a common grave on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery (plot no. 13621) eight days later.