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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 329472, member: 5833&quot;]The last bit remaining of the scratched out part looks like a g to me, so words maybe not quite &#039;painted for&#039;, but something that adds up to the same thing.</p><p>The stepsister note was written in a much later hand, suspect by a girl/young woman; have not known any other group of people who dot their &#039;i&#039;s that way.&nbsp; (At least it&#039;s not a little heart.)&nbsp; Maybe the stepsister is who the writer acquired the painting from, a bit of additional provenance?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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