19th-Century Portrait Of A Lady With A Diamond Brooch Watercolour while the reeds are just

while the reeds are just quickly sketched in

England Condition

The painting is signed in the lower right and inscribed ‘Virkland 1900’

which perhaps suggests that the artist knew the sitter

19th-Century Portrait Of A Lady With A Diamond Brooch Watercolour while the reeds are justA 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