Oil on canvas, signed at lower left, presented in a period ebonized and gilt frame.

Frame dimensions 29 1/4 x 36 1/4 in.

Property of a Virginia Collector

Julia Schily-Koppers was a German portrait and genre painter. She graduated at the Münsteraner Kirchenmaler Dominik Moser and then studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under the professors Benjamin Vautier, Eduart Gebhardt and Wilhelm Sohn.

Her work was well received and in 1883, Kaiser Wilhelm I acquired her painting, Opportunity Makes Thieves. She exhibited frequently in Düsseldorf, Munich, Dresden and Berlin.

Light surface grime; canvas with some buckling.