A Late 18thC French School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman c.1790-1800 sub-Religion & Relics Provenance: Gatehouse

Provenance: Gatehouse

cushions were often given as a love token and its creation would have helped pass the long hours at sea and this tradition was carried on by soldiers throughout World War I

the head with short curly mohair strawberry blonde hair and the body constructed of a combination of paper maché

with leafed scrolls

or small shorts as we see here

A Late 18thC French School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman c.1790-1800 sub-Religion & Relics Provenance: GatehouseOrigin: FrenchPeriod: Louis XVIProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1790 1800Height: 32Width: 25. 25Depth: 0. 75The beautifully worn half length portrait in rectangular form of a gentleman of nobility, painted in oils on canvas, the sitter wearing a laced overcoat of velvet, with a wig, his ink and quill sitting beside him, with a scarlet curtain to one flank and surviving from the period of the French revolution of the late eighteenth century. The portrait