A Late 18thC French School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Priest Dated to 1793 sub-Art & Sculpture The popular pantomime required frequent

The popular pantomime required frequent and smooth trick scenery changes for spectacular and magical effects such as trees growing out of rocks

The Immaculate Heart of Mary is a devotional name used to refer to the interior life of the Blessed Virgin Mary

In good vintage condition there is some fraying to the edges and some old paint stains to the poles but this aside they remain sound

She remains in as found order therefore un-cleaned and untouched and the marble now has a subtly weathered and slightly forlorn

Hector could read at 2 months

A Late 18thC French School Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Priest Dated to 1793 sub-Art & Sculpture The popular pantomime required frequentOrigin: French Period: Louis XVI Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1793 Height: 30 Width: 24 Depth: 1 The beautifully worn half length portrait in rectangular form of a Normandy priest, painted in oils on canvas and in its original beaded gesso frame, the sitter wearing a priests cassock and holding a book of prayer looking out amicably to the viewer, on a dark ground, and surviving from the Reign of Terror of the French revolution of 1793. The portrait