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Pennies, I can relate.
I have one public tree, created to flush out the US relatives. Photographs I had attached to it appear all over the place. That alone is irritating, what compounds it is that these people never make contact first. They never cross check that what they think is a match from their direction looks like a match from my perspective. All they want is to gather names, "never mind the quality, feel the width".

Treetotal,

"It looks like a Pastel Portrait on Ingress paper. "
Interesting observation, does the paper type suggest an amateur rather than a professional artist?

The barter idea is a logical way round the how was it paid for question.

Thank you
Canuc

Ruskie,

I emailed the person I'm helping, she's not confident. For a start she doesn't know where there was money in her pedigree to pay an artist for their skill.

The picture was in a collection of her mother's papers, but in isolation. She's working on some thoughts.

By posting here to get an opinion of the date of the portrait and the age of the man she hopes she can identify him by elimination. I hope to visit her in a few weeks and have two heads gong on the conundrum, mine with no preconceptions. Sometimes other people's brisk walls are more interesting than your own, and it keeps your skills honed.

Thank you for your efforts, I'll post on here if we think we have him identified.

Happy hunting
Canuc

RJ137,
Thank you

Thank you for the colourisation the person I'm asking for will be pleased I think
Canuc