A Very Large c.1830 Gilt Framed English Provincial School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles as it once did as

as it once did as a galloping chariot

it was cut in two and the two halves glued back together

typically less flamboyant than fast changing fine furniture trends initiated in royal courts over past centuries

Amongst important events in the year of 1778

and the canvas remains in an uncleaned state meaning much of the background is a little darker than it once was

A Very Large c.1830 Gilt Framed English Provincial School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles as it once did asOrigin: Unknown Period: Early Mid Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1830 40 Canvas: 36 inches x 28 inches The Whole in Frame: 40. 75 inches x 49 inches x 5 inches The large and well realised three quarter depiction of a young and dashing gentleman in oils on canvas, clad in period dress holding a staff, presented in a wonderful gilt gesso frame survives from the first half of the nineteenth century. The picture and frame are both in