A Mid-19thC English School Portrait of a Young Gentleman c.1840-60

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A Mid-19thC English School Portrait of a Young Gentleman c.1840-60Origin: UnknownPeriod: Early Mid VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1840 60The Work: 24. 5 wide x 29. 5 highThe Whole in Frame: 31. 75 wide x 36. 5 high x 2. 5 deepThe well realised half length depiction of a young and dashing gentleman, in oils on canvas laid to board, clad in period dress, being a brass buttoned overcoat and cravatte, presented in contemporary gilt frame, the work surviving from the middle part of the nineteenth century and in un

with key components 16-35 to include the biceps

The chest is in super structural order and the interior clean and tidy

the whole newly upholstered in Matthew Williamsons’ ‘Zanskar’ being a composition of theatrical Indian vignettes depicted in multicolour on pure linen

We cannot find this particular example anywhere else

with the exceptions the East India Company

prepared by Millikin & Lawley of 165 Strand

rust and ochre

The mouldings of the pilasters

The well-preserved and mounted crimson rosella (Platycercus Elegans) perched on a naturalistic outcrop under a good quality late Victorian glass dome and raised on an ebonised plinth socle base with ruby red twist bordering survives in very good overall condition from middle of the twentieth century

This particular model is very similar aesthetically to the one held in the Smithsonian American Art Museum

The castors appear to be original and are moving freely

or stones like these chairs

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