A Late 18thC French School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Priest Dated to 1793 sub-Art & Sculpture His real name was Edwin

His real name was Edwin Simms

and aside from a tiny little snag on one handle

knowledge of which flowed to the West in the nineteenth century through oriental imports

As this picture was sourced in Newcastle

was issued on 2 Jan

A Late 18thC French School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Priest Dated to 1793 sub-Art & Sculpture His real name was EdwinOrigin: French Period: Louis XVI Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1793 Height: 30 Width: 24 Depth: 1 The beautifully worn half length portrait in rectangular form of a Normandy priest, painted in oils on canvas and in its original beaded gesso frame, the sitter wearing a priests cassock and holding a book of prayer looking out amicably to the viewer, on a dark ground, and surviving from the Reign of Terror of the French revolution of 1793. The portrait