This portrait was done in 1917. The very next year this woman died of the
so-called Spanish flu and three days later so did the artist.
No one knows where the Spanish flu started – other than
it didn't start in Spain. During the War
news of the flu epidemic was suppressed but Spain as a neutral country did
raise it in the press. So it became Spanish!
Stay safe everyone.
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