Lovely oil on canvas portrait painting by Frederick Francis Foottet (British, 1850-1935), of a young girl playing a tambourine, signed on reverse. In a gilt wood frame. Biography: A painter, etcher, lithographer, mezzotinter and illustrator; Foottet was born in Sheffield, educated in Derby and worked in London; he exhibited paintings at the RA in 1873, and etchings from 1894 to 1903. In the 1890s he executed original etchings, in 1900 he created color lithographs. Bibliography: R K Engen, 'Dictionary of Victorian Engravers, Prints Publishers and Their Works'. [Art: 36 1/2" H x 28 1/2" W; Frame: 44" H x 36" W].