Lot 1196: Jasper Lawman (PA, 1825-1906), Lady & the Rose,

Jasper Lawman (PA, 1825-1906), Lady & the Rose, oil on canvas, signed and dated en verso "Jasper Lawman / pinxt / 1868," half length portrait of a dark haired woman in mourning dress wearing gold and garnet earbobs and brooch, a dark pink rose pinned in her loose curls, she is seated before a cloud filled sky, housed in the likely original gilded and incised oval form liner, in a later, period appropriate, gilt wood frame with composition ornament. SS 29.25" x 24"; DOA 39.25" x 34.25"