Walter Henry Truscott (1854-1890)
A Girl in a Shawl
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1879
25 ¼ x 21 ½ inches
£14,000
Exhibitions
Probably Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, 48th Annual Exhibition, 1880
In a review of the 48th annual exhibition of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, where this pretty portrait was probably shown, the Royal Cornwall Gazette noted that: ‘W.H. Truscott is in force with a series of portraits’ (3 September 1880). This Falmouth artist, like many in the provinces, lived by portrait painting and photography from his High Street studio/shop.