I do not think this painting can be of RK for the following reasons:
1. The painting is of an obviously very elderly ma. At this age RK had much
less hair.
2. The eyebrows in the painting are not as bushy as RK's.
3. The painting shows little sign of RK's very prominent cleft chin.
4. The jaw-line is different, and the cheeks appear to be sunken.
All in all, the characteristics of the painting correspond very well to
some of the illustrations in a book on Mark Twain in my possession.
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