A Late Victorian Unfinished Oil on Canvas Portrait of an Elderly Lady c.1880

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A Late Victorian Unfinished Oil on Canvas Portrait of an Elderly Lady c.1880Origin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 Height: 24 Width: 20 The compelling and evocative unfinished oil portrait depicting an elderly woman, shown bust length and turned slightly to her left, wearing a dark headscarf or bonnet and a loosely suggested garment, with the artist having concentrated their efforts almost entirely on the face, her features rendered with surprising sensitivity, softly modelled flesh tones,

By the mid eighteenth century

There is a hairline crack to one along the center and some other small hairlines elsewhere to each

but then the price (handwritten in the catalogue) increased to £50 8s

With most European Hussar and Cavalry uniforms of this period being very similar it is difficult to be 100% sure of the origin of the picture

Maybe in round three thousand and eighty three…

Devon and SG Ventham

Heights: 5”

Origin: EnglishPeriod: Mid-20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c

which he did in 1866

There are several ‘Britannia Works’ complexes in the UK

Thomas William Bramston

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