An Early 19thC French School Oil on Canvas Laid to Board Portrait of a Noble Lady of Maison de Béon c.1800 sub-Decorative Objects although not all are annotated

although not all are annotated

this embattled pair have been squabbling for well over eighty years now

and have later applied mounting rings and chains for hanging individually

exhibiting at the Royal Scottish Academy and his work is included in the Government and Clydesdale Bank art collections

The face and hands are all in tact and there is a nice patination to the whole that one would expect from a figure of this considerable age

An Early 19thC French School Oil on Canvas Laid to Board Portrait of a Noble Lady of Maison de Béon c.1800 sub-Decorative Objects although not all are annotatedOrigin: French Period: Empire Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1800 Height: 32 Width: 25. 5 Depth: 0. 75 The beautifully worn half length portrait in rectangular form of a noble lady of high station, that of house Bon, painted in oils on canvas and later laid to board, and in a black painted period frame with gilded slip, the sitter wearing a lace bonnet and black laced dress, possibly in mourning, and holding a clasped book looking out amicably to the