A Large Carved & Painted Oak Architectural Memorial for Henry Kitcher (1789-1857) sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage facial hair fell dramatically from

facial hair fell dramatically from favour as the face of the polite gentleman was increasingly clean-shaven

made 1820-1830

human figurines and furniture

in the neoclassical taste

There is a similar work in the National Portrait Gallery entitled

A Large Carved & Painted Oak Architectural Memorial for Henry Kitcher (1789-1857) sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage facial hair fell dramatically fromOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Early Victorian Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1857Height: 16. 5Width: 66Depth: 1. 5The large and beautifully sign written dry oak memorial, at well over five feet long, having black hand painted script with line decorated border reading Sacred to the memory of Henry Kitcher, departed this life, 16th October, 1857, aged 68 years, thy brother shall rise again, the whole surviving from the early Victorian period in original