A Very Good Mid 19thC British School Oval Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Bearded Gentleman c.1860 sub-Religion & Relics There are two sections of

There are two sections of loss to the moulding at both ends

Viola herself was also the author of Practical Tempera Painting in 1949 and The Art of Gilding in 1940

The detailing is sharp

and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge

which this may well be from

A Very Good Mid 19thC British School Oval Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Bearded Gentleman c.1860 sub-Religion & Relics There are two sections ofOrigin: English Period: Early Mid Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1860 Canvas: 22. 25 inches x 18. 75 inches The half length portrait in oval form of a dashing young bearded gentleman in oils on canvas, in a black dinner suit with white shirt and black dicky bow tie, the work unframed and indistinctly signed, survives from early to mid Victorian England. We have administered a repair to the canvas and have given him a very light clean and