Serenity

Isn't she lovely!  

We collected her this afternoon, and I took the picture out of the frame to clean the glass.  

Folded tight inside was an excerpt of a story from the Launceston Times (Tasmania).  It's made the image even more intriguing,  Who was she, and why would there be a story of an escaped convict murderer folded in the back of her portrait?  Was she the victim?  Or did she write the story under a male pen-name?  She is clearly mid-Victorian, and the painting is exquisite.  The picture is about 4" x 6 " by the way.  Not large.

More research is needed, it's clear.  But in the meantime, the story is folded back again in the back of the picture.

I am so very pleased we bought her.