An Interesting c.1640-80 Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman sub-Curios She sits both ways

She sits both ways

there is some light creasing and crinkling where the poster has been folded prior to being framed

With their decorative Latin labels naming their contents

was used in 1953 to install electric lighting in the village streets

Base Diameter: 9 inches

An Interesting c.1640-80 Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman sub-Curios She sits both waysOrigin: English Period: Cromwellian Charles II Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1650 80 Height: 13. 5 inches Width: 10. 5 inches The well realised bust portrait of a middle aged to elderly (for the time) gentleman wearing a ruff depicted on a dark ground, and possibly a fragment from a larger composition, survives from seventeenth century England. The condition of the painting is unrestored, uncleaned and unframed and is in as found order and does show