Thank you Michael, for your wise advice.
The customer agreed to a larger version, and was delighted to pay extra when she saw the prep work I had done. It will be 24" x 20", and cropped just below the bottom of the child's shoe, which makes the grandma's head 5" in height, a workable size for me, and a very nice composition, eliminating the rather large expanse of black dress.
I sold her on the size by printing out a full size image and tiling it together, in three different sizes, the last of which was the cropped, and best sized - making the heads the largest of the three options.
I will start tomorrow. Thanks for your input. I paint to post.
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