1867, Francis Montague Holl, Faces in the Fire -- Ashmolean Museum (Oxford)
From the museum label: Holl made his name as a painter of genre subjects, before turning to portraits. Faces in the Fire was one of his earliest successes when exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1867. A young girl gazes into the fire, oblivious of the cat whose saucer is broken. The birdcage, a common attribute of servitude, indicates that she is a servant or a hard-worked daughter of the house.
1867, Francis Montague Holl, Faces in the Fire -- Ashmolean Museum (Oxford)
From the museum label: Holl made his name as a painter of genre subjects, before turning to portraits. Faces in the Fire was one of his earliest successes when exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1867. A young girl gazes into the fire, oblivious of the cat whose saucer is broken. The birdcage, a common attribute of servitude, indicates that she is a servant or a hard-worked daughter of the house.