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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 854074, member: 5833&quot;][USER=8184]@Jivvy[/USER] Oh, I love revelations in installments.&nbsp; Have done, &amp; continue to do, my share of it.&nbsp; Saw this on eBay, then within the week in person at a big show:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/yQsAAOSwxddc7uHZ/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Seller was lovely, letting me poke &amp; prod it all over.&nbsp; Promised if I ever got a handle on who the family is, would let them know.&nbsp; Didn&#039;t really do any deliberate hunting, just chanced on this because the word &#039;cameo&#039; is in the title:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]196518[/ATTACH] </p><p>Excitedly wrote that I thought I had IDed one of the women, said I&#039;d leave further research to them &amp; suggested they look to the family of Leopold I, King of the Belgians.&nbsp; Of course, after writing, looked some more at other offerings from same seller &amp; found this lady:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]196521[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>who looks a fair bit like the other woman.&nbsp; Of course, sent a message with my new find.&nbsp; Nearly sent a third to suggest they redirect attention to the Orleans family, who are pretenders to the throne of France &amp; have their loyalists, then decided to let them come to their own conclusions.&nbsp; Haven&#039;t received any message of effusive gratitude; I&#039;m obviously the only one who&#039;s excited.</p><p><br /></p><p>Meanwhile, Miss Nichols.&nbsp; I was thinking Mary Ann(e) a good possibility.&nbsp; Unkind of her not to be Maude Anastasia.&nbsp; I found some notices from late in the century of the sale of the effects of the late Miss M.A. Nichols but did not follow up.&nbsp; Think we now see where Inez Stodel got their dates, known period of activity, starting with RA exhibition.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am now kicking myself black &amp; blue for not going after the portrait more aggressively.&nbsp; Won&#039;t be the last time I did not venture more because my knowledge didn&#039;t support my gut.&nbsp; Knew it was exceptional, just not precisely how.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Now we would recognize it again, we can watch if it comes up elsewhere, for a whole lot more![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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