A 19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Contemplative Gentleman c.1870 sub-Art & Sculpture 1919’’

1919’’

and some water staining to the front edgings of the paper

He called the technique illuminated printing and the poetry illuminated books

the 1227 with three springs and an Art Deco-inspired three tier base

A 19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Contemplative Gentleman c.1870 sub-Art & Sculpture 1919’’Origin: EnglishPeriod: Mid VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1870Height: 21Width: 17The bust length portrait of a contemplative and pensive gentleman in his older years, wearing a skull cap, and with his hand resting to his face, the whole on swirling dark ground, painted in oils on canvas and remaining unframed and unrestored and surviving from the latter half of the nineteenth century. The picture remains in original though unrestored condition