A 19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Contemplative Gentleman c.1870 antiques the whole sitting on bracket

the whole sitting on bracket feet

artistic skill

and one that captures a fleeting moment in time

A Forster of Soho Square

A 19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Contemplative Gentleman c.1870 antiques the whole sitting on bracketOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1870Height: 21Width: 17The bust length portrait of a contemplative and pensive gentleman in his older years, wearing a skull cap, and with his hand resting to his face, the whole on swirling dark ground, painted in oils on canvas and remaining unframed and unrestored and surviving from the latter half of the nineteenth century. The picture remains in original though unrestored condition