An Early 20thC German School Portrait of a Lady by Albert Spethmann Dated to 1916 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope A family in London once

A family in London once had a kitten named Ned and a parrot called Jack

the whole surviving from late nineteenth century France

one a portrait of a girl with skipping rope in a verre eglomise mount and the other depicting ‘The flight into Egypt’ both surviving from the first quarter of the nineteenth century

whose now inanimate gracious features defy his no doubt burly frame

An Early 20thC German School Portrait of a Lady by Albert Spethmann Dated to 1916 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope A family in London onceOrigin: German Period: Early 20thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1916 Height: 18 Width: 14. 75 The atmospheric bust length portrait of a nude lady, shown glancing to one side, against a pale pistachio lemon coloured ground, the whole presented unframed and painted by Albert Spethmann (Germany, 1894 1986) in 1916. The picture remains in nice decorative condition with some small paint fleck loss to the surface and with craquelure to the whole; please