A Mid-19thC Victorian Period Floral Still Life Velvet Painting c.1850 sub-Architectural & Garden This success launched young Walter

This success launched young Walter on a career preparing stuffed animals for Victorian parlours and his growing stock meant a move to new premises in 1866 and again in 1880 to the specially constructed building still in Bramber today

The early to mid-Victorian period pine carcass of unusually large proportions with a fabulous craquelure period black painted finish over a slightly earlier brown stained coat having an arrangement of five drawers

These pictures would have hung in the stairwell or main sitting room in a larger country pile or Georgian townhouse and their naïve style and style of the frames suggests they may well have been painted away from the larger cities at the time

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A Mid-19thC Victorian Period Floral Still Life Velvet Painting c.1850 sub-Architectural & Garden This success launched young WalterOrigin: English Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1850 Height: 27. 5 Width: 23 Depth: 0. 75 The early Victorian floral still life depicting a myriad of flowers and foliage in wondrous colours, painted on velvet and sometimes coined as theorem, with two butterflies and a birds nest laden with eggs, the flowers within a fluted vase atop a ledge and held within a period burr maple frame surviving from the late nineteenth century in