Portraits - Seven: #4 wk 1

I'm not sure if I have a photo from day 1 of this painting. If I knew where one was, I wouldn't try to substitute yet another "word-picture." Enjoy! This is the best blog!
The model is a short, roundish middle-aged woman with long, thin hair and glasses. She is my favorite model so far because she holds herself very still and resumes the exact same position after her breaks. She had been asked to come up with a theatrical or dramatic pose, so she brought a cane along--she took her seat as if it were a throne, and rested her hands on the cane as though it were a scepter, and she did a Queen Victoria moue thing with her mouth.