A Mysterious 19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman antiques a simple facsimile manual binder

a simple facsimile manual binder from TRW Systems of Redondo Beach California

glazed and presented in an ebonised and gilded frame

Leonardo Da Vinci's studies of the human skull in 1489 borrowed three-dimensional drawing techniques from architecture that had never been seen before

Usually featuring geometric patterns and earth tones

the figure rendered realistically swaddled in cloth

A Mysterious 19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman antiques a simple facsimile manual binderOrigin: Unknown Period: Mid Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1860 90 Canvas: 14 inches x 9. 5 inches The Whole in Frame: 19. 5 inches x 15 inches The head and shoulders bust portrait painting of a young gentleman in oils on canvas, in dark period dress, presented in the original gilded frame survives from the second half of the nineteenth century and is apparently unsigned. The picture and frame are both in what could be described as attic