Madeline Graham Barker, Portrait Of A Elderly Widow

Madeline Graham Barker, Portrait Of A Elderly WidowThis early 20th century oil painting by British artist Madeline Graham Barker (1886 1974) depicts an elderly lady dressed in widows weeds. Its probably the artists grandmother, Susanna H Chapple. Perched in a particularly floral corner of the family home, she rests in full mourning wear. A photograph hangs on the wall alongside her perhaps of her daughter Lucy or herself earlier in life. She carries a knowing expression, shes seen it all. A wise

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he sought to get closer to the finished result and

Quickly added to capture a feeling

a conspicuous inclusion

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 19½” x 16” / 50cm x 41cmYear of creation: c

there’s a sense of quiet melancholy infused with an air of romantic sensibilities

from a bowl

This mid-20th-century oil on canvas by German artist Curt Rabethge (1899-1974) depicts a rural view with a deep track

he swapped a painting for a gun

During the 1850s

It depicts a street in the rural commune of Clecy in the Normandy region

Christian Tilemann-Petersen trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts