A Girl in a Shawl

Walter Henry Truscott RSA 1854-1890

Signed and dated 1879

Oil on canvas

25 ¼ x 21 ¾ inches

In a review of the 48th annual exhibition of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, where this pretty portrait was probably shown, the Royal Cornwall Gazette noted that: ‘W.H. Truscott is in force with a series of portraits’ (3 September 1880). This Falmouth artist, like many in the provinces, lived by portrait painting and photography from his High Street studio/shop — Maas Gallery

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