A pair of Lady and Gentleman Canadian oil painting portraits on board unsigned.
These came from Descent of the Bayfield family (Fanny Bayfield) in Eastern Canada.
Both have inscriptions verso Grandmother and Grandfather E. Bayfield.
10.5" x 9 1/4" inches in oval frames.
 
About Fanny Bayfield:
WRIGHT, FANNY AMELIA (Bayfield), painter and teacher; b. 1813 or 1814 in Kensington (London), England, daughter of Charles Wright, re; m. 2 April 1838 Henry Wolsey Bayfield* in Quebec, and they had four sons and two daughters; d. 11 Sept. 1891 in Charlottetown at age 77.
Fanny Amelia Wright came to Lower Canada in 1833 when her father, a captain in the Royal Engineers, was posted to Quebec. Five years later she married Captain Bayfield, surveyor of the St Lawrence River and Gulf. Bayfield, in a letter to a friend, described his bride as “handsome, amiable, religious, and accomplished. She plays and sings English and Italian, draws extremely well.”
Fanny Bayfield lived at a time when amateur painters flourished and when many women played the piano, sang, and painted non-professionally. There is a tradition that she studied painting in England under one of Queen Victoria’s instructors, but it has not been confirmed. She may have received some instruction from her father, who, like many British officers stationed in British North America, painted local scenes. Probably she belonged to a sketching group that painted from nature and practised by copying paintings of other artists. She painted several watercolour scenes of Quebec, some of which resemble those of contemporary British military artists.