Woman at the Sea, Victorian Oil Painting in Gold Frame antique flask but might guess early 20th

but might guess early 20th century

I didn't know when I found him (at the estate of a widely-collecting world traveler from Gloucester

The face I love for the gold stripes against black patterning that looks very much like scales

signed Burns on the left side at the horizon line

and 15 1/2" across (I measured nose to raw edge when folded: 7 3/4" on each side

Woman at the Sea, Victorian Oil Painting in Gold Frame antique flask but might guess early 20th(A bit hard to photograph on account of the very gold frame I've shot in two different lights to try to give a sense.) Women at the sea became a popular subject for paintings of the Victorian era books have been written all about why, with reasons ranging from the popularization of belief in the healthfulness and curative powers of the sea and salt air, to deeply rooted associations between women and water fluid(ity) etc. (Relatedly, sea moss