A Late Victorian Unfinished Oil on Canvas Portrait of an Elderly Lady c.1880 sub-Antiques The paper label to the

The paper label to the reverse has always been in this position as the makers stamp underneath it is in the original pristine white plaster colour

with the mechanism working soundly

‘Anti-tube bladders of colour’ (January 1841 p

Eugène Mercier strove against the odds to purvey Champagne of the highest quality to a wide public

A Late Victorian Unfinished Oil on Canvas Portrait of an Elderly Lady c.1880 sub-Antiques The paper label to theOrigin: 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,