Always and Forever Gold Silver & Bronze Rural life hadn’t changed much

Rural life hadn’t changed much up until the Great War and comely young milk maids were a popular inspiration for many of the leading painters of the day

not an illustration just a beautiful drawing of a young dancer in repose

the framed image is not professionally taken so colours may vary from the original

I imagined that it was a very stylised portrait but found an old black and white image of the young socialite at a ball in 1945 and it’s a pretty good likeness

In 1971 she was bought for the Philadelphia Maritime Museum and serves as a sail-training and good-will ship

Always and Forever Gold Silver & Bronze Rural life hadn’t changed much