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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