A Late 19thC Oil on Canvas of a Still Life of Flowers & Fruit Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews Metropolitan Asylums Board (as Giles

Metropolitan Asylums Board (as Giles and Biven) and as designers of County Asylum had already produced an experimental Corridor-Pavilion layout for the East Kent Asylum at Chartham

with a handful of repairs to the whole

they have suffered knocks and scuffing and overall they remains in fairly good decorative condition

Prior to that

William ruled alone and deeply mourned his wife's death

A Late 19thC Oil on Canvas of a Still Life of Flowers & Fruit Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews Metropolitan Asylums Board (as GilesOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1890 1900 Height: 21 Width: 15 Painted in oils on canvas, depicting a still life of an assortment of flowers in whites, pinks, greens blues and oranges, upon a smoky ebony ground, the posy bunched in a gadrooned pedestal vase sat on a ledge with grapes and other fruit below, the whole presented unframed and surviving from the late nineteenth century in untouched condition. The