Featured Old Oil Painting "Head Of A Woman" Artist & Printing On Verso I.D. Help?

I found this today...It looks old & well done??...There is something partially printed on back of canvas & any help on full content or artist I.D. appreciated!

 

No help, I'm afraid, but isn't that lovely!

 

Tough one. Can't even confirm it to be a real painting from these pics. As for the stamp on the back, I see ANA at the end of the first line, IN at the end of the second line, and TIST?WATER as part of a word in the third line. Maybe ????? In Artista Watercolor for the second and third line? Can you make out any more? There also seems to be hand writing below the stamp.

 

Could the top arched line say "something" then "HAVANA"? My guess on the end of the third line is "? 8TH WATERHOUSE" ??? Maaan, that's all difficult to decipher!!!!

 

It is tough...The top line ends in Lana/Kana....The third looks like "ARTIST MATERIALS"....There is no writing below & it is definitely an oil painting & a good one...I wish I could find out more info...Thanks,for your help.

 

What a lovely painting... definitely like this one!

It sounds to be like what's written on the back is identifying the board or canvas rather than the painting.

The quality looks good enough to me that I'd think it warrants getting an expert to look at it.

 

She looks a bit like Elsa Lanchester

 

Henry Cheever Pratt (1803-1880)


Henry Cheever Pratt (1803-1880)

Pratt’s talent was discovered by Samuel F. B. Morse when, as a boy of fifteen, Pratt was painting scenes on barn doors. The portrait artist took him to Boston as an errand boy and gave him lessons. Pratt assisted Morse in his work in Charleston, SC, and also sketched in portrait heads for Morse’s large painting of the House of Representatives.

Probably through work in the early days of the National Academy of Design, Pratt and Thomas Cole, two years his senior, met and became friends. They journeyed through the White Mountains in October 1828 gathering sketches for studio paintings. Temperamentally, the two men were very different: Cole was poetic in feeling and wished through his paintings to convey the grandeur of nature as the visible hand of God, while Pratt was factual and pragmatic. These traits are seen in both their paintings and their writings. Pratt was appointed official draftsman to the U.S.-Mexican Boundary Commission, and his works reflect his topographical approach to landscape.