A Late 18thC French School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Priest Dated to 1793 sub-Art & Sculpture An entry made in the

An entry made in the 1790s in the records of the Lancaster furniture maker's Gillows

along with wheels and compasses

What is certain is that this table would have been part of the daily life in the same room for decades at which the user could either stand at or sit at on a high stool

which he would demonstrate by stamping his gouty foot on the marble hearth to impress his friends who were similarly afflicted

A riding instructor by trade

A Late 18thC French School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Priest Dated to 1793 sub-Art & Sculpture An entry made in theOrigin: French Period: Louis XVI Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1793 Height: 30 Width: 24 Depth: 1 The beautifully worn half length portrait in rectangular form of a Normandy priest, painted in oils on canvas and in its original beaded gesso frame, the sitter wearing a priests cassock and holding a book of prayer looking out amicably to the viewer, on a dark ground, and surviving from the Reign of Terror of the French revolution of 1793. The portrait