An Interesting English Naïve School Oil on Panel of an Imprisoned Man with Wildcats c.1825-35 sub-Antiques So at his funny build

So at his funny build don't smirk -

The high-top leather child’s boots in black leather cowhide

Although the picture is haunting it retains a nice warmth between the children with the affection shown and the faces to each child are generally warm

There is some minor shrinkage to the five boards

to a soft sand ground

An Interesting English Naïve School Oil on Panel of an Imprisoned Man with Wildcats c.1825-35 sub-Antiques So at his funny buildOrigin: English Period: Early 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1825 35 Height: 11 Width: 14. 5 Depth: 0. 75 The primitive and naive depiction in oils on thick rough hewn oak panel, showing a young man in period dress slumped to the floor and detained in a prison cell, with a lion to one flank and with his arm around a tiger to the other. with its young, the tiger licking his face, the whole surviving from the second quarter of the nineteenth