Looking for the original painter or similar picture of the artwork? In
other words where was this picture taken from who painted it or whats
the painting  called?
http://www.mosaiclegs.com/content/Media/unknownpainter.jpg

Dear jumpwithjoey-ga,

My immediate thought was that this picture was in fact a digitally
altered photograph of a famous sculpture: The Three Graces by Antonio
Canova. I have seen it on several occasions in the Victoria and Albert
Musuem.

The positioning of the two women, their hair, and particularily the
positioning of the fingers, are the same. The photograph is taken from
a slightly different angle from the ones which I refer you to below. I
have conducted an test on my graphics software and changed the
direction and postioning of two images and they were almost identical.

This is the image from the Victoria and Albert Museum website.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/12649-popup.html

"The Three Graces
Antonio Canova, born 1 November 1757 - died 13 October 1822
1814-1817
Rome
Carved marble"

You will note that several copies have been made (good and bad). 
"The slightly earlier version, now in St Petersburg and similarly
supervised by the sculptor though differing in some details, exhibits
a high quality of carving. Copies were made in marble during the 19th
century after the sculptor's death; these however do not exhibit the
same sensitive handling of the marble."

Three such copies can be seen on these pages.
http://feminaweb.free.fr/graces.htm
http://www.cis.nctu.edu.tw/~whtsai/World%20Highlights/New%20Side%20Show%20Webpages/imagepages/image105.html
http://www.stonecarver.com/card/history/3graces.html

And this is an oil painting
http://www.catherineabel.com/gallery/threegraces.html

Therefore, I believe this image is a photograph of the original
sculpture or from a copy.

I hope this answers your question. If it does not, or the answer is
unclear, then please ask for clarification of this research before
rating the answer. I shall respond to the clarification request as
soon as I receive it.
Thank you
answerfinder

Search strategy
As described above.
"the three graces" image search
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=%22the%20three%20graces%22&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wi

Thank you very much. You knew exactly what I was trying to find out.

Dear jumpwithjoey-ga,
Many thanks for the tip. Pleased I could help. I knew my that my years
of visiting art galleries would pay off in the end.

answerfinder-ga