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