A Mysterious 19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman sub-Architectural & Garden Basin Diameter: 18 inches

Basin Diameter: 18 inches

the makers rating name plate to the underside showing model number 02E-12” and serial number M8202

These nests were collected just a couple of years prior to the Battle of Ladysmith which was one of the early engagements of the Second Boer War in South Africa

9 inches (the cloth)

A Mysterious 19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman sub-Architectural & Garden Basin Diameter: 18 inchesOrigin: Unknown Period: Mid Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1860 90 Canvas: 14 inches x 9. 5 inches The Whole in Frame: 19. 5 inches x 15 inches The head and shoulders bust portrait painting of a young gentleman in oils on canvas, in dark period dress, presented in the original gilded frame survives from the second half of the nineteenth century and is apparently unsigned. The picture and frame are both in what could be described as attic