A wonderfully dramatic oil on board portrait by the artist Florence Small 1859-1933. A fine oil portrait painted in profile using broad loose brushworks concentrating on a detailed depiction of the face. The work is signed to the lower left and dated 1882, the whole is in good untouched condition. Florence Veric Hardy Small (1859-1933), was born in Nottingham and studied art in Geneva, Berlin, and Paris. In Paris she trained under William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Deschamps, and Robert Henri. She settled in London sometime during or before the 1880s, and produced many portraits using oil paint and pastels, mostly of high society women and children. For the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887 Florence Small painted a portrait of the queen from which chromolithograph copies were made and sold. Small exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Franēais, and in 1909 she won a jury commendation. She also exhibited at the Royal Academy in London from 1881. She exhibited widely in other London galleri...