A Good Mid-19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a LadyOrigin: English Period: Mid Victorian Provenance: The Estate of the late Joe & Mary Hope. Joe Hope, former head of Fine Art, Bath Academy of Art, Corsham Court, 1968 81 Date: c. 1860 Height: 10. 25" Width: 8. 25" (in frame) The well depicted three quarter length portrait of a lady; painted in oils on canvas:, the sitter wearing a lace bonnet and black dress and holding a book, with slender hands and an amicable face, sitting on a period parlour chair,