Sirius and his family status

[kamion53]

No: HPFGUIDX 184071

lanna:
> > Like, all of a sudden, their black sheep traitor son is the great
> > Lord Voldemort's greatest supporter, fighting for the new world
> > order! Shouldn't he have been, like, the family hero?

Potioncat:
>----- I'm not sure what they knew about Regulus's death. We don't
> know when Mrs. Black went mad, or whether it's just her portrait
> that's over the bend.

kamion:
I think Mrs. Black already became pretty unstable when Sirius ran
away, Kreacher says something like: breaking Mistress' heart.
but by the time Sirius is arrested and inprisoned at Azkaban, Mrs.
Black is a widow, for two years already, who lost her husband and her
last brother in the same year as her youngest son went missing.
This according the Black family tree.

She then lived completely alone in a gloomy grim old house for
another four years before dying herself. Quite enough I would say to
get her over the edge completely. I don't think she saw Sirius as a
hero or whatever, but more as a miscreant who got himself in deep
trouble just to spite and damage the family name.

Sirius states that Kreacher has taken orders from her portrait too
long, from which I conclude that Mrs. Black's father, Pollux Black,
was neither around at the time she died, his year of death is given
as 1990, five years after hers. Maybe he lived in the house where
Bellatrix and Narcissa grew up.

Question is when was her portrait made?  In this period, she lived alone as a widow and did a freeze her last state of mind. Or was it made much earlier, (commisioned by her husband when she was
younger) and soaked up the deranging state of mind of a lonely old
woman?

kamion