Do you recognise this painting?

bump!
I'm sure I know this painting too, but not a clue about title or artist.

No a Manet then
And Sargant painted mainly indoor portraits.
Whistler? If we get the artist we may make progress

Sounds a bit like Gainsborough to me

I have just Googled images of Gainsborough's portraits, but none of them seem to fit. The clothes are not striped, and the women are not Victorian.

What was the name of that website which wanted people to tag paintings a while back? I even tagged some, but I can't remember the name. A search among their tags might show something.

While I was typing that an email arrived for me from them! It is the Public Catalogue Foundation. www.thepcf.org.uk

I am about to go and do a search. Watch this space.

Any of these?

That was not successful. If anyone else would like to try, I was searching at www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/

I think I know the one you mean. It's (I think) by Berthe Morrisot, or, if it's not, it's by one of that circle of impressionist painters. I can't name it as I don't know, and never have known, the name of the picture I have in my mind.

And I might be wrong anyway...

The one I found - in a thumbnail - is On The Lawn. Is that the one?

I should have mentioned that the paintings in the group I posted a link to (above) are by Berthe Morisot. Might not be what you are looking for though.

I should have looked!

Thank you for trying to help. It's driving me mad lol

The description sounds more like a male Victorian painter than they do Berthe Morisot. All that symbolism about woman at the heart of the home. Morisot's backgrounds are too blurry to make out whether there are deer in them too.

I have tried searching Goole images for word combinations like:
portrait of victorian woman in striped dress deer

no luck I'm afraid

It's so annoying! I can almost see the picture.
Look what you've done now VQ

Yes; I tried 'picture of woman with deer in background' but it just threw up hundreds of pictures with deer in. A site called 'Painting Mania' has paintings by just about everyone.

When you said striped dress I immediately thought of a painting by Tissot but I'm sure she's at a railway station. The painting is in Dunedin I think or Christchurch NZ

I thought of the Manet, also near a railway station but with a cunning amount of steam so no train actually visible!!!

I'd still go down the tissot line as he loved painting a striped dress.

I'm really sorry about this. I came across the painting when I was studying the works of Holman Hunt and his ilk regarding attitudes to women in Victorian England. Does that help anyone?

Ah a pre raphelite striped dress...?

Could it be something painted by John Millais? It sounds like his sort of thing and he was certainly associated with Holman Hunt.

The Childrens Holiday [but it's not striped?].

www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/the-childrens-holiday

Thank you VQ I have not found the painting you describe but I have been on a fascinating journey through 19th century women's portraiture. My goodness! some of those ladies look pretty fierce characters, while others seem subservient. It does not seem to be the done thing to appear smiling or happy in a portrait - obviously something to be taken very seriously.