A Mid-19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman c.1840 sub-Architectural & Garden from a huge eight-inch wing-spanned

from a huge eight-inch wing-spanned Atlas Moth specimen

portrait and still lifes

in which two legs

the reverse provides significant interest

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A Mid-19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman c.1840 sub-Architectural & Garden from a huge eight-inch wing-spannedOrigin: English Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1840 Height: 24 Width: 20 The early Victorian oil on canvas portrait of a dashing young to middle aged gentleman, of rather Dickensian traits, in oils on canvas, in a black overcoat with a white buttoned shirt, the sitter with a full head of black hair and lambchop sideburns, on a black ground, sat upon a red armchair, the work apparently unsigned, survives from the second quarter of