This painting, executed in oil using the impasto technique on textured linen canvas, is characterised by its distinctive thick layers of paint and rough brushstrokes applied with a palette knife, in the style of modern palette-knife portraiture. This close-up portrait depicts an elegant Victorian lady wearing a richly adorned wide-brimmed hat, embellished with lace and large flowers. She stands in a sun-drenched Victorian conservatory, her hands folded across her chest. The background depicts the soft, warm, picturesque atmosphere of a glass conservatory, rendered using impasto and thick brushstrokes — large, free, unmixed, matt oil strokes that hint at arched windows, lush tropical plants and numerous flowers, applied in thick impasto strokes using a palette knife. The uniform, noticeably thick texture of the oil paint smoothly covers the entire canvas, whilst the blurred background of the conservatory forms a picturesque surface created with thick strokes of the palette knife. Characteristic features of the painting include the dramatic lighting of the ‘golden hour’.