A Mid-19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Bearded Gentleman c.1840-60 sub-Decorative Objects At the centre of one

At the centre of one side is a cartouche engraved with the monogram "J E A"

Sick am I of these changes

and the owner seemed to believe the sculpture once stood on a wooden base

surrounded by a deep primitive block wooden frame in black paint

Beginning as a clay model

A Mid-19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Bearded Gentleman c.1840-60 sub-Decorative Objects At the centre of oneOrigin: Probably DutchPeriod: Mid 19thC Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1850Height: 24Width: 22 Depth: 3. 5 (in frame)The European school portrait in oils on canvas laid to board, showing a very well depicted middle to elderly aged bearded gentleman, glancing downward, presented in a later twentieth century deep gilded foliate frame, surviving from the second quarter of nineteenth century Europe. The condition of the painting is unrestored and uncleaned