Anonymous "military painting" is a nice Antoni Piotrowski

Rops, from Belgium, sells on 4 October 2015 a "Military painting", 68 by 86 cm, estimated at 200 to 300 Euro.

The sentimental but very well painted work is signed, and can be deciphered as "A. Piotrowski" or something similar, which indicates Antoni Piotrowski (1853-1924), a Polish Romantic Realist painter who worked as a war painter during WWI. After the war, during the final years of his career, he made a few variations on this theme, the woman getting bad news about her husband or son in the war.

As a good but late Piotrowski, it should be worth a few thousand Euro instead of the very low estimate. UPDATE: indeed; sold for 3,300 Euro instead!