A 19thC English School Oil on Canvas Laid to Board Portrait of a Gentleman c.1870 sub-Religion & Relics The wonderfully original and decorative

The wonderfully original and decorative pale lemon yellow painted pine dairy table of substantial proportions at nearly eight feet long

with the Glasson dockyard only six miles away from the site there was the opportunity to work at the docks

anything draped tends to indicate mourning and the drape can also be an allusion to the 'veil' between this world and the next

Baron de Cuse is dated to 1639

A 19thC English School Oil on Canvas Laid to Board Portrait of a Gentleman c.1870 sub-Religion & Relics The wonderfully original and decorativeOrigin: English Period: Mid Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 The Work: 24 high x 20 wide In Frame: 30. 5 h x 26. 5 w x 3 d The shoulder length portrait of a handsome English gentleman, probably in his late thirties, sensitively executed, the sitter being clean shaven and looking out towards the viewer, painted in oils on canvas to a dark ground, the sitter shown in formal dress of a black blazer with a white collared under garment and