A Late 18thC French School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman c.1790-1800 poa-item 75” wide x 83” long

75” wide x 83” long

and we cannot find any other works like this in oils

with the gentleman in question obviously wanting to portray to the viewer that he is well read and of good social standing

The animals were sold exclusively through Liberty’s up until the mid 1970’s

A Late 18thC French School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman c.1790-1800 poa-item 75” wide x 83” longOrigin: FrenchPeriod: Louis XVIProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1790 1800Height: 32Width: 25. 25Depth: 0. 75The beautifully worn half length portrait in rectangular form of a gentleman of nobility, painted in oils on canvas, the sitter wearing a laced overcoat of velvet, with a wig, his ink and quill sitting beside him, with a scarlet curtain to one flank and surviving from the period of the French revolution of the late eighteenth century. The portrait