Early 18th-Century French School, Portrait Of A Gentleman

Early 18th-Century French School, Portrait Of A GentlemanThis playful early 18th century half length French school portrait depicts a bewigged gentleman pointing to, what appears to be, a marble tablet. Its somewhat reminiscent of works by Gilles Allou (1670 1751). Attired in an exceedingly well tailored ensemble, hes evidently a man of considerable means. His dark blue velvet coat, probably a justacorps, is embellished with horizontal bands of elaborate gold embroidery. While the lucious patterned silk,

A worn pathway winds between two buckled trees and leads onto open pasture where several chickens peck the earth

Hans Christian Andersen

This early 20th-century etching by British artist Charles Spencelayh depicts a man stripped of all wealth

in this Austrian work from the 18th century

He subsequently moved to London and joined the rising stars at The Graphic magazine as an illustrator

there’s a label from the Kleis gallery in Copenhagen

fishermen and figures

In other similar works

The inscription and plaque incorrectly place the castle in Yorkshire rather than Northumberland

Bears a signature in the lower left

Signed/dated in the lower right and housed within a good later frame

The bounteous array of tones contrasting with the white stone of antiquity