Old Market Woman  1885

Portraiture constituted a great portion of the training at Munich’s Royal Academy, where Forsyth spent six years. Bravura brushstrokes in this woman’s time-worn hands and face show the influence of 17th-century Dutch masters Rembrandt and Frans Hals, exemplars studied in the Academy’s painting class. Forsyth was born in Ohio but moved to Indianapolis as a child. Reportedly...