Joanne Wrote:
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> IIRC, she began hearing the voices around age 12,
> and left the farm soon after...She was only 19
> when she died. The woman in this painting looks
> about 30 to me.

True ... Perhaps, through the portrayal of a prematurely aged face, the artist wanted to suggest the shadow of her forthcoming ordeals, her betrayal by those whom she had loved and served so well, her subsequent trial and terrible death ... Alternatively, perhaps, strapped for cash, he was reduced to persuading his aunty or some older female relative to pose for the picture at reduced rates ...

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