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Portrait of Gentleman in Trap with Landscape
Ref: 5002
A classic English Provincial School Primitive painting of Victorian gentleman in a trap, the wayside marker stone indicates that he is 11 miles from Wisbech. Wisbech was a modest but elegant Georgian market town on the edge of East Lincs and near to Norfolk, you can see the flat landscape in the painting. This man may have been a prosperous trader or man of note in the community & a local painter has ‘done’ his portrait. The scale of the pony or horse to the subject of the portrait is off kilter and gives the piece a naive or quirky feel, perhaps the canvas was prepared and the details of the client painted in as was often the case with country artists working for provincial landowners & farmers, a one guinea painting had the face or figure painted in whilst a three guinea painting was all done from scratch.
East Anglian School c.1870
H: 51cm (20.1in)
W: 61cm (24.0in)
D: 2.5cm (1.0in)
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