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Only just a bit creepy

I bought this portrait years ago, and it's been reposing in the barn at Horton Landing (where I've been busily cleaning and organizing for the last few days):

I know very little about its subject, but presume that she died before it was done --such memorials were common in Nova Scotia parlours in the late 19th century. Attached to the lower corner is a photograph that I can't squeeze any more out of than this:

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