A Mysterious 19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman sub-Architectural & Garden shown full length and painted

shown full length and painted in oils on canvas in the original ebonised shaped and carved frames in the Chinese manner with gilt slips survive from the third quarter of the nineteenth century

indicating that they were already dead at the time of concealment

There are some scratches and scuffs to the base with a small hairline but nothing detrimental to the whole

-    Plate XVI

Basin Diameter: 18 inches

A Mysterious 19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman sub-Architectural & Garden shown full length and paintedOrigin: Unknown Period: Mid Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1860 90 Canvas: 14 inches x 9. 5 inches The Whole in Frame: 19. 5 inches x 15 inches The head and shoulders bust portrait painting of a young gentleman in oils on canvas, in dark period dress, presented in the original gilded frame survives from the second half of the nineteenth century and is apparently unsigned. The picture and frame are both in what could be described as attic