Portrait painter Frederick Rice Webster was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and studied art at the Royal Academy in Munich. Though based in Chicago, he undertook a series of portrait commissions in Los Angeles between 1912 and 1913. The languid hand-behind-the-head pose of this unidentified young woman in a black evening dress recalls the glamour of 1930’s Hollywood.
Webster is listed in Artists of California, 1786-1940 (Hughes, 1989).

Sight size: 23” x 13”
Frame size: 34.5” x 24.5”