Just after I first posted this 'Swan Song' thread, somebody very close to me, somebody who can be very persuasive, advised me that the post was incomplete, as it did not contain an example of my portrait images.

At that time I was half way through my work on the below image. Since then I have been continually harangued and inveigled into completing/posting it by this well meaning person. So it has taken a while, but now here it is