A Late 18thC English School Oil on Canvas of a Gentleman c.1780-1800 sub-Decorative Objects The skulls refer to the

The skulls refer to the hill of Golgotha ("the place of the skull")

Derbyshire

pricked ears and eyes tightly shut

but we find it more appealing as a sculpture

if not a little slightly disturbing and most certainly roguish vent figure and probably one with a rather chequered past

A Late 18thC English School Oil on Canvas of a Gentleman c.1780-1800 sub-Decorative Objects The skulls refer to theOrigin: English Period: George III Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1780 1800 Height: 19 Width: 17 Depth: 1 The well depicted head and shoulders portrait in rectangular form of a noble gentleman, painted in oils on canvas and in a period beaded gesso frame, the sitter in formal dress and possibly wearing a wig, to a green doublet and silk cravatte, the whole being uncleaned and unrestored and surviving from George III period England. The portrait remains