| In Gotch’s later
years he tended to opt out somewhat, and he painted a large number
of pleasant, but not distinguished watercolours. This remarkable
portrait is proof, however, that well into his seventies, and
only a year before his death, his imagination and facility to
paint had not deteriorated. It is, I suppose, a symbolist painting,
but is valid in it’s own right as a fastidious, beautifully rendered
portrait of a young women. The face of the model is most attractively
and accurately painted, and her sad wistful expression is captured
very well.
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