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English School, late 19th Century Portrait of a lady in a lace trimmed white dress, seated on a settle indistinctly signed and dated 1886 lower right oil on canvas 75 x 63cm (29 x 25in)

Oil on canvas, unlined. The canvas tension is slightly slack. There are pin holes at the corners of the painting. The paint layer is stable overall, there are side drying cracks around the outline of the figure. There is some wear and abrasion at the edges and in the darker paint passages. The painting is varnished and there are mould spores in the lower half.

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