A Mid-19thC English School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman c.1860; Ex Dame Elisabeth Frink sub-Architectural & Garden clutching a book of hymns

clutching a book of hymns

embellished with oval windows

Joan Crawford

From Angelo Domenico’

Commissioned as a private home for the Townley Balfour family

A Mid-19thC English School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman c.1860; Ex Dame Elisabeth Frink sub-Architectural & Garden clutching a book of hymnsOrigin: English Period: Early Victorian Provenance: The Estate of Dame Elisabeth Frink (1930 1993) Date: c. 1860 Height: 35. 25 Width: 30. 75 The unframed half length portrait in oils on canvas of a middle to late aged gentleman reading a book held aloft, the whole of good size, the sitter with greying hair, a wiry build and strong facial features, depicting reading to allay an intellectual appearance, wearing a dark blazer and waistcoat to brown