English Artist: Constance Ellen Wise
World War I Era English Lady,
in Almost-Profile View
English
dated 1916
by Constance Ellen Wise (1882-1958)
(Signed obverse, lower left, 'C. E. Wise / 1916')
2 1/2 x 3 3/8 inches (sight)
watercolor on ivory; housed in a gilt metal pendant frame with a floral crown
formerly a holding of the Arturi Phillips Collection (Carmela Arturi and Frederick Roger Phillips),
and pictured on page 276 of their "Dictionary of Miniature Painters 1870-1970"
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