*Howard Somerville (1873-1952) Portrait of a lady from the Stutchbury family, half length, in a black dress and black hat signed 'Somerville' u.r., oil on canvas 76 x 63cm *Artist's Resale Right may apply to this lot. Condition report: Oil on canvas which is unlined with a faint canvas stamp for Chenil on the reverse in the distinctive shape of a palette. The canvas tension is good and the picture is in plane. There are stretcher bar marks starting to form where the canvas rests against the wooden stretcher behind. The paint layer is in a very good, stable condition. There are some drying cracks in the darker paint of the sitter’s hat which would have formed as the paint layer dried. There is a thin varnish layer across the surface with several scuffs and scratches.