![Augustus Egg - The Travelling Companions [1862]](http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1544/25222820884_db7c3fe9f3_o.jpg)
Augustus Egg (London, May 2, 1816 - Algiers, March 26, 1863) was a Victorian artist. Always in poor health, Egg spent his later years in the warmer climate of continental Europe, where he painted Travelling Companions, an ambiguous image of two near-identical young women that has sometimes been interpreted as an attempt to represent two sides of the same person.
[Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery - Oil on canvas, 65.3 x 78.7 cm]