Lady Violet Henderson (1907), by J.W. Waterhouse Waterhouse was not a keen
Lady Violet Henderson (1907), by J.W. Waterhouse Waterhouse was not a keen portraitist, but the market for his pre-Raphaelite paintings was shrinking and towards the end of his life the Henderson family was commissioning many works so he could hardly reject their requests. Pictured is Lady Violet, a noble lady and the wife of H.G. Henderson.The expression on the face of the woman (Trippi calls it “the vacant eyes”), the flushed cheeks on an otherwise white skin and the roses in her hand and in the background make her very much a Waterhouse beauty as he has pictured in so many of his paintings. -- source link
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