A Scare & Early Carved & Painted Pine Folk Art Phrenology Head c.1850-60 sub-Architectural & Garden The style of the painting

The style of the painting is perhaps most similar to that of Rembrandt as many of Rembrandt’s portraits follow a distinct structure

A superbly evocative relic

typically shown with one holding a cub under her paw and the other a brocade ball under his

Provenance: John Rees

There are gaps between each plank to the top but these can be spliced and filled on request

A Scare & Early Carved & Painted Pine Folk Art Phrenology Head c.1850-60 sub-Architectural & Garden The style of the paintingOrigin: English or American Period: Mid 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1850 60 Height: 14. 75 Base: 9 x 9 Depth: 10. 5 The folk art hand painted and carved pine phrenologist bust of generous proportions, being disproportionate and larger than life in size, on a shaped base, mapping the labeled regions of the human brain, such as lust, addiction and gullibility with each section painted within black and cream outlines on an ochre base, the whole in