19th-Century Portrait Of A Lady With A Diamond Brooch Watercolour The portrait is housed within

The portrait is housed within a later gilded frame

Size including frames

29” x 24” / 74cm x 61cm Year of creation c

while the reeds are just quickly sketched in

19th-Century Portrait Of A Lady With A Diamond Brooch Watercolour The portrait is housed withinA charming portrait of a continental lady dressed in the fashion a la mode of the 1890s. Her hair is styled into a coiffure and she wears a large diamond brooch that sparkles with light. The coiffure was a must have hairstyle in the 1890s as this article from 1894 explains: A potent factor in any womans appearance is her coiffure. Indeed, no other item of her toilette is really so influential, either to emphasize or to lessen her natural