*Frank Owen Salisbury (1874-1962) Portrait of Monica, a young girl with red hair, head and shoulders, in a blue cloak and with a brown ribbon in her hair Signed u.r., oil on canvas 76 x 62cm Frank Salisbury won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools which he attended for five years and where he won two silver medals and two scholarships, including the Landseer scholarship which funded his to travel to Italy in 1896. Frank Salisbury is best known for his portraiture - his speed in producing portraits stemmed from painting his own twin daughters every morning for an hour and his career began with child portraiture. The present work is, according to an old inscription on the reverse, a study for Salisbury's 'To the Honour of Woman', now in Auckland, New Zealand, a study of a little girl with her mother, seen in Russell Square, London, during the blackout. *Artist's Resale Right may apply to this lot. Condition report: Relined