Ann 1956 by LS Lowry
![CAL015.Portrait of Ann 1957.MP.1110-003076 © The Estate of L.S. Lowry. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2018](https://quayslife.com/storage/2018/10/30441330847_e5c30c0f47_z.jpg)
© The Estate of L.S. Lowry. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2018
‘Ann’ appears in Lowry’s work many times. Her identity has never been confirmed and it is thought that she is an imagined character, a composite of women that Lowry knew throughout his life. Lowry described Rossetti’s female portraits as ‘dream women’, a description that also fits Ann. Here her pose, head tilted down, is very similar to Jane Morris in ‘Proserpine’ – the only oil painting among all the Rossetti drawings that Lowry owned.