A 19thC Continental School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Lady c.1860-70 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage as photographed

as photographed

Guy Payling-Wright had led a charmed life

infinitely more so than at the time of its conception

complete with weighted black leather pouch

A 19thC Continental School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Lady c.1860-70 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage as photographedPeriod: Mid VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1860 70Height: 23. 5Width: 18Depth: 1The very striking three quarter length portrait in rectangular form of a lady, wearing a lace bonnet and black dress to a jade green ground, the sitter holding a letter and looking out to the viewer with a piercing gaze with a tilt top occasional table to the side, the whole painted in oils on canvas, being signed lower left V. Larco (?) and surviving from the high