<div dir="ltr"><div>Has anyone encountered the following portrait, which vanished in 1933 in Victoria and has not turned up since? A newspaper record from February of that year describes the exact same picture ("Portrait of a Young Italian with a Bust of William IV"), by Madame (Emma Jones) Soyer. We do know it was sold by Reginald B. Webberley through the Empress Hotel, but I cannot figure out who bought it, nor where it might have been ever since! </div><div><br></div><div>Any suggestions on where to expand my search would be enormously appreciated. If it could be located, it would be a prime candidate for inclusion in a prospective exhibition of Soyer's work. </div><div><br></div><div>Very best,</div><div>E </div><div><br></div><div><div>The painting: </div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><a href="https://photocollections.courtauld.ac.uk/sec-menu/search/detail/042edca6-249a-11ee-83f0-ac1f6ba5d150/media/df102694-2ae7-39a1-9ab4-be7a51559d62" target="_blank">https://photocollections.courtauld.ac.uk/sec-menu/search/detail/042edca6-249a-11ee-83f0-ac1f6ba5d150/media/df102694-2ae7-39a1-9ab4-be7a51559d62</a>  </p><p style="margin:0px;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><br></p></div></div><div><img src="cid:ii_mrzji9dy0" alt="youngitalian.jpg" width="451" height="542"></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_mrzjiiww1" alt="webberley_soyer.jpg" width="542" height="525"><br></div><div>News clips: </div><div><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px"><a href="https://archive.org/details/victoriadailytimes19330215/page/n3/mode/2up?q=%22young+italian%22+%22bust+of+william+iv%22" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/victoriadailytimes19330215/page/n3/mode/2up?q=%22young+italian%22+%22bust+of+william+iv%22</a><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">     </span> </p><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px"><a href="https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist0233uvic_9/page/n9/mode/2up?q=%22mr.+webberley%22" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist0233uvic_9/page/n9/mode/2up?q=%22mr.+webberley%22</a> </p><p style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";margin:0px"> </p></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Emily Esser, Portrait & American Folk Art Specialist <br><div>Princeton '18 Art & Archaeology</div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Browse the newly updated <a href="https://americanfolkportraits.org/wiki/Main_Page" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">American Folk Portraits Wiki</a>!</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Blog/Website: <a href="https://www.paintingsworthlookingat.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Paintings Worth Looking At</a></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">View the <a href="https://ngabiographies.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Lost Content from the National Gallery of Art</a></div></div></div></div></div>