An Impromptu Ball (an After painting)

Note:- This after painting of mine is based on the original by         Eva Roos dated 1899  with slight  changes to back ground etc

Oil on canvas panel                                     

Size:-  16”x12”  406 x 305

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An Impromptu Ball (after painting)     date 1999

This after painting of mine is based on the original by Eva Roos dated 1899  with slight  changes to back ground etc.
She is believed to have lived and worked in the Hampstead area of London in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Born in London , Roos, a painter and book illustrator, had her training in Paris .
 
Eva Roos produced this genuinely charming study of street life at the very end of the Victorian era.

The little girls in their ragged pinafores, clumsy shoes and chance-cut hair dancing to an impromptu ball

"Note that the back-to-front hat worn by the little boy sitting on the      pavement was a mark of ”street cred” long before our time!"


By the way the original painting of the Impromptu Ball by Eva Roos was the same year that Clarice Cliff was born 1899