A Late Victorian Unfinished Oil on Canvas Portrait of an Elderly Lady c.1880 sub-Religion & Relics all having moustaches and designed

all having moustaches and designed to cover the top half of an adult face and two small adults or childs faces survive from the first half of twentieth century Indonesia

surmounted by an applied frieze panel depicting Eros or Cupid to the centre holding the remains of a whip and holding a torch aloft

for example

the whole with padded scroll arms and barrel ring turnings

and this piece will sing

A Late Victorian Unfinished Oil on Canvas Portrait of an Elderly Lady c.1880 sub-Religion & Relics all having moustaches and designedOrigin: 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,