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

and Guilds

son of a Liverpool merchant

and phrenologist born in 1860 in Codnor

the bee orchid

garden benches – even custard cream biscuits

A 19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Contemplative Gentleman c.1870 sub-Art & Sculpture and GuildsOrigin: 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