A Late 18thC French School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman c.1790-1800 poa-item suitable for the most elegant

suitable for the most elegant of wrists

75” wide x 83” long

"Professor" Severn wrote a number of books and funded some almhouses in his home village of Codnor

Wilton Crescent is characterised by grand terraces with lavish white houses which are built in a crescent shape

A Late 18thC French School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman c.1790-1800 poa-item suitable for the most elegantOrigin: FrenchPeriod: Louis XVIProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1790 1800Height: 32Width: 25. 25Depth: 0. 75The beautifully worn half length portrait in rectangular form of a gentleman of nobility, painted in oils on canvas, the sitter wearing a laced overcoat of velvet, with a wig, his ink and quill sitting beside him, with a scarlet curtain to one flank and surviving from the period of the French revolution of the late eighteenth century. The portrait