Featured Silhouette signature help please.

7 x 5 and a half inches. May be Victorian and depicting a little boy. Any ideas about the signature please anyone? Thanks.

 

Found it! Bit of a trawl, Harry Lawrence Oakley seems to match.

 

Good sleuthing, @Houseful !

You may have found several stories about him already. This one is interesting.
https://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk...signed-iconic-posters-of-the-first-world-war/

 

Hadn’t seen that, thanks Fig.
I read he did portraits of many famous people as well as the War ones and after the war people on holiday in coastal towns. This portrait came from a table top sale today, I paid £10 which was a bargain.

 

I think that's a young woman. 1930s-ish from the hair and ruffled collar.

Debora

 

In fact, looks very much like this sitter.

https://www.posterazzi.com/silhouet...by-h-l-oakley-mary-evans-item-varmel10645049/

Debora

 

Here’s a couple more pics showing the faded highlights which may have been a reddish bronze colour originally. Not sure about the age, could be a child with full head of bouncy curls or a youthful woman. Agree it’s later than Victorian. Does look like the one you posted Debora.

 

Hair style looks like this to my eye.

Debora

 

The rounder features and enlarged head make me think a child as well.

 

Could even be the same person, somebody he knew as a child and then older.