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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mirana, post: 9611859, member: 79705&quot;]An aside to all this amazing sleuthing...</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=74321]@Wavedecanter[/USER] You may realize, but your lady is in great need of cleaning and restoration. She needs a clean, varnish removal, an overpaint assessment and removal (that&#039;s probably what going on with those letters....done when it was re-lined), the relining removed, the painting heat treated to flatten out the stretcher pressure marks, new lining or lining edges done, possible retouch, re-varnish, and re-stretch.</p><p><br /></p><p>Otherwise it will continue to come away from the re-lining and that, plus stretcher pressure, will cause the paint to crack further...leading to loss.</p><p><br /></p><p>She has a lot of detail and may be a historical person of interest who doesn&#039;t have many, or any, portraits other than this one. I hope we can identify her![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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