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Wow! Thanks for the wonderful response! I have a few thoughts to share on composition decisions, which I will post when I have a chance later today.
For Nathan, I was able to bring up the background painting, but is very grainy. It was pulled off of the 35mm slide of the entire 4' x 5' portrait. (I imagine the image on the slide is probably a quarter of an inch wide. I didn't think to take a close up of the hunt scene.)
Peggy
Oh, an aside, the entire hunt scene was painted in middle values. I didn't want it to compete with the foreground figure. As a matter of fact, the entire painting is a middle value except for the woman and dog, which are light values, and the woman's dress, which is a dark value. (This might not be as apparent from the slide).
Even though the entire hunt scene is in a middle value, you still can have the entire range of light middle values, mid middle values, and dark middle values, as well as color transitions. This would be a very good examples of what I teach, that you have a tremendous range to create in even if you are restricting yourself to one value - in this case the middle value.
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