A 19thC Defaced French School Oval Pastel Portrait of Lady c.1870 sub-Macabre- Medicine and to the masks in

and to the masks in particular

He now needs a new home and can just as easily be hung or sat upon a table and if you listen carefully enough you can hear him from time to time taking off Victorian policemen with aplomb

became Hiatt's main competitor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

otherwise generally ok but with cracking to paint surface and wear and tear commensurate with age

is known as the Victorian era

A 19thC Defaced French School Oval Pastel Portrait of Lady c.1870 sub-Macabre- Medicine and to the masks inOrigin: French Period: 2nd Empire Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 Height: 24 Width: 20 The defaced portrait of a French lady in oval form, executed in pastels on paper and laid to card, wearing a navy dress with brooch clasp, her hair tied up, her face totally and intentionally damaged, on a beautiful green grey ground, the work unframed and surviving from the third quarter of nineteenth century France. The photographs show clearly that there are