Claim: Portrait from Life  is a 90 min. British drama film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Mai Zetterling, Robert Beatty and Guy Rolfer, released on 15 December 1948 about a British Army Officer Major looking for a young girl he saw in a painting,
Evidence: Portrait from Life (also known as Lost Daughter, and in the U.S. as The Girl in the Painting) is a 1948 British drama film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Mai Zetterling, Robert Beatty and Guy Rolfe. 90 min. 15 December 1948 (London) A British Army Officer Major Lawrence (Guy Rolfe) is on Leave from being Stationed in Germany just after WW2 when he sees a painting of a beautiful young girl in a London Art Gallery. Major Lawrence agrees with the old man to find the young girl when he returns to Germany.