An Interesting English Naïve School Oil on Panel of an Imprisoned Man with Wildcats c.1825-35 sub-Antiques and elsewhere it is in

and elsewhere it is in good condition with the high quality mahogany of a good rich colour and the adjustable brass fitments and collar all present and in operational order

Michelangelo is said to have been so impressed with the torso that he based some of the characters in the Sistine Chapel on it

Although the picture is haunting it retains a nice warmth between the children with the affection shown and the faces to each child are generally warm

freestanding

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An Interesting English Naïve School Oil on Panel of an Imprisoned Man with Wildcats c.1825-35 sub-Antiques and elsewhere it is inOrigin: English Period: Early 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1825 35 Height: 11 Width: 14. 5 Depth: 0. 75 The primitive and naive depiction in oils on thick rough hewn oak panel, showing a young man in period dress slumped to the floor and detained in a prison cell, with a lion to one flank and with his arm around a tiger to the other. with its young, the tiger licking his face, the whole surviving from the second quarter of the nineteenth