A Moody 19thC English School Oil on Canvas Portrait of an Elizabethan Gentleman sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles knitting sheaths and stay busks

knitting sheaths and stay busks were most likely to be adopted as love tokens though treen items

there is a crack through the top lip and some other areas of wear

the smaller for ink

In fair to good condition

and the ‘honour of gout’ was as much a status symbol as a nuclear bomb shelter is now” said Bywaters in 1962

A Moody 19thC English School Oil on Canvas Portrait of an Elizabethan Gentleman sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles knitting sheaths and stay busksOrigin: English Period: Mid Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1855 80 Height: 24. 25 inches Width: 20. 25 inches The well painted English school portrait in oils on canvas depicting a bearded and moustachioed Elizabethan Gentleman with white ruff collar, presented unframed and apparently unsigned, surviving from mid Victorian period England. The condition of the painting is unrestored, uncleaned and unframed and is in as found order and does