A Mid-19thC Continental School Portrait of a Gentleman c.1850 sub-Architectural & Garden Probably created on a New

Probably created on a New England whaling ship this busk features images drawn from the creator's imagination with the sharpened point of a canvas sail needle and its creation would have helped pass the long hours at sea

The oblong single piece wooden plinth lobed at each end

The design usually bears a stepped diamond out-line which encloses a number of stylized

In lovely crusty condition

to very elaborate ossuaries

A Mid-19thC Continental School Portrait of a Gentleman c.1850 sub-Architectural & Garden Probably created on a NewOrigin: Central European, Possibly BavarianPeriod: Mid 19thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1840 50Height: 18. 5Width: 14. 75The unframed half length depiction of an intriguing looking gentleman in his middle years, in oils on canvas, clad in a formal black overcoat and cravatte, and clutching a Panama type hat, with a mountainous background, the work surviving from the middle part of the nineteenth century and in un restored condition. The picture has