A 19thC English School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman c.1830-50 sub-Architectural & Garden the lockable shaped seat top

the lockable shaped seat top left unpainted to show the wooden grain

A strikingly vibrant and typically buoyant piece of functional fairground art

perhaps ceremonial and there is a chance it is earlier than eighteenth century

A highly decorative and well-carved piece in a beautiful material of an iconic object

with a bust of each brother standing respectively over the other

A 19thC English School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman c.1830-50 sub-Architectural & Garden the lockable shaped seat topOrigin: UnknownPeriod: William IV Early VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1830 50In Frame: Height: 23. 5Width: 20. 5The well realised head and shoulders depiction of thoughtful gentleman in his middle years, in oils on canvas, the face emerging from the dark ground, the faint outline of his black overcoat contrasting with the white collar, the sitter glancing pensively into the distance and the work surviving from the second quarter of the