A Mid-19thC English School Portrait of a Young Gentleman c.1840-60 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Set my body free

Set my body free

This example is particularly appealing because of the glass eyes

the lower section having two arched cupboard doors with a series of four graduated drawers to the middle

with chrysanthemums and other flowers depicted

Some of the bolts are later replacements

A Mid-19thC English School Portrait of a Young Gentleman c.1840-60 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Set my body freeOrigin: 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