A Mid-19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Bearded Gentleman c.1840-60 reserved and graves were often opened

and graves were often opened seven years after death to ensure against vampirism

Ruffs were worn in Western Europe from the mid-sixteenth century and continued to be worn in the early 17th century

Height: 45 inches (at maximum)

not ‘restored’ to something she shouldn’t be and not meddled with

The whole shows several knocks and chips to the painted surfaces which is part of its huge appeal and some old worm to the softwood

A Mid-19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Bearded Gentleman c.1840-60 reserved and graves were often openedOrigin: Probably DutchPeriod: Mid 19thC Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1850Height: 24Width: 22 Depth: 3. 5 (in frame)The European school portrait in oils on canvas laid to board, showing a very well depicted middle to elderly aged bearded gentleman, glancing downward, presented in a later twentieth century deep gilded foliate frame, surviving from the second quarter of nineteenth century Europe. The condition of the painting is unrestored and uncleaned