No. 18711 Reclining Cow by John Bernard Johnston
John Bernard Johnston, 1848-1886 was the second surviving son of David Claypoole and Sarah Elizabeth Murphy Johnston. He became noted as a cattle and animal painter and was a pupil of William Morris Hunt (1824-1879) and studied in Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904).
The Payson family lived on Payson Street in Dorchester.
For more information, see the Johnston family collection at the American Antiquarian Society
https://www.americanantiquarian.org/Inventories/Johnston/introduction.htm