A Good Pair of c.1842 French School Provincial Oil on Canvas Portraits of a Gentleman & His Wife sub-Religion & Relics Alternatively it may have been

Alternatively it may have been used for leather-work or in an in-house cobblers (these existed in some asylums) and the initialed ‘R’ to the frieze is made from punched leather so this may be a clue

once flown proudly on English streets

we believe too much quality and not enough accuracy in its carving to be a twentieth century piece with its wear to the stone commensurate with an eighteenth century period dial

Lievens’s Dirck Decker

the whole surviving from early Victorian period England and quite possibly designed by 19th-century English architect

A Good Pair of c.1842 French School Provincial Oil on Canvas Portraits of a Gentleman & His Wife sub-Religion & Relics Alternatively it may have beenOrigin: French Period: Louis Philippe Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1842 Canvases: 16 x 12. 75 inches In Frames: 20. 75 x 17. 5 inches The mid nineteenth century French school depictions of a gentleman and lady, presumed man and wife, shown half length and painted in oils on canvas and presented in their original gilt and gesso frames, one being signed C. Chollol 1842, survive from Louis Philippe period France in attic condition. The pictures are in