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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 310909, member: 5833"]Could easily be a typo, but according to catalog, Mrs. T.W is Sturges, while painting signature looks to me very much like Sturgis.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be consistent of the author of your painting also did something as 'dramatic', as Debora put it, as Orpheus & Eurydice. Think this will turn out to be another fictional character. I thought maybe Lohengrin because of the swan, but not a good fit or a case of extreme artistic license.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 310909, member: 5833"]Could easily be a typo, but according to catalog, Mrs. T.W is Sturges, while painting signature looks to me very much like Sturgis. It would be consistent of the author of your painting also did something as 'dramatic', as Debora put it, as Orpheus & Eurydice. Think this will turn out to be another fictional character. I thought maybe Lohengrin because of the swan, but not a good fit or a case of extreme artistic license.[/QUOTE]
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