Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd has dated this piece to the Victorian era.
Title No 2 Heartsease.
Subject portrait genre of a beautiful full length front view of a nubile young lady of importance, she is wearing a long white dress and is seated in her Victorian parlour room by the window, she is in such a graceful elegant pose with her left hand raised and her hand touching her dark black hair,red lips and pale complexion she is wearing black shoes resting on a decorative mixed pattern vibrant red rug.
To her left is a 2 tiered side table which has another vase on top, in the background on the wall is the outline of gilt framed painting hanging on her parlour room wall.

You can feel the movement in the creases & folds of her dress and cuffs.
Signed by the known British artist Frank E Cox. Also inscribed by the artist with title verso.
A good size with the frame being 65.4cm wide and 53.5 cm wide.

Stamp on the canvas back also verso.
Oil on canvas.
Set in an attractive gilt frame which enhances the painting.
With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home display.
Circa late 19th century and dated 1886.

Biography of the artist Frank E. Cox was a British 19th Century painter who was born in 1850. Frank E. Cox's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging up to 8,895 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2008 the record price for this artist at auction is 8,895 USD for Weel may the keel rest, sold at Christie's South Kensington in 2008. The artist died in 1894.

He was a London landscape painter who flourished and exhibited between 1870 and 1894 at various places including “Evening at Penberth Cove, Cornwall” in 1870/1 at the Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Academy, Suffolk Street, New Watercolour Society, Grosvenor Gallery.

Ref sources Christie’s.
Provenance label verso.
We only sell paintings based upon subject, quality & significance.
So collectible and sought after.
Condition report.
Offered in fine used condition.
The painting surface is in acceptable order overall condition, with various craquelure and foxing & some paint loss in areas, various foxing on the back of the canvas. Set in a late outer frame which has general wear and scuffs also some losses, chips to frame commensurate with usage & old age.

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Dimensions in centimetres of frame approximate
High (65.4 cm)
Wide (53.5 cm)
Depth (3.5 cm)
Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd has dated this piece to the Victorian era.
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