Keeping Watch, Late Victorian Painting of Young Beauty on Door handmade toys documented with magnification

documented with magnification

Good condition with some loss to the top edge of backing paper on his portrait

Sits flush and sturdy on his shoulders of a base

perhaps all three part once part of the same collection

It's the arms

Keeping Watch, Late Victorian Painting of Young Beauty on Door handmade toys documented with magnificationQuite a beauty, and beautifully painted, but what really makes this for me is her having been painted on the central panel of a much used large cabinet (I believe) door. As such, her looking over her shoulder pose seems very much one of waiting and keeping watch and to have opened this door would have been to directly meet her gaze. (To me she looks a bit weary of it all, too, as if thinking "you again?") She seems to me much more of the sort to have