painting (oil): ["Portrait of Lois Ball (sister of Albert Ball V.C.; later Mrs Anderson)"]

A young woman, three quarter length, standing in a landscape background. She is facing left, her hands on her hips. She has reddish-brown hair, and is wearing a large-brimmed hat tilted to her right; she is dressed in a white blouse, dark skirt and peach overdress, or pinafore, which is unbuttoned, but tied at the waist. She wears drop earrings of a green stone suspended on a small length of gold chain, and a matching brooch. Bottom right signed "Denholm Davis", Subject information: Likely to have been done before her marriage in 1918? Her father was Sir Albert Ball and her brother was Capt. Albert Ball V.C. Her dates are 1892 - 1984 (letter in files).,