AutumnIdyll

Portrait of a Man with a Moustache

Date: unknown

Dimensions:  Height:  55.9 cm ( 22 in.),  Width:  40.6 cm (16 in.)

Medium:  Painting – oil on canvas

Owner/Location:  Private Owner

Description

This portrait is signed on the verso. The portrait seems to be rather quickly painted, yet the strokes are quite confidently placed.

Both of these portraits, it seems from the framing were held by the same family. Both Paintings were signed on the verso.

Neither sitter are identified

Exhibitions / Provenance

Exhibitions:

2010, Broadway Arts Festival June 2010. Together with a copy of the illustrated hardback book on the artist “Soldier of Fortune” by Joyce Sharpey-Schafer (Utica, New York 1984) The catalogue of the festival, speculated that this painting may have been a study for a mural by Millet entitled. “Noble Savage.” 

 

Provenance:

2018, John Nicholsons Fine Art Auctioneer & Valuer, Haslemere, SRY, UK Jun. 20, 2018 Est. was £1,000 – £2,000

The artist’s family, and then to the Reverend A Harvey. 

 

 

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