A Naïve English School Oil on Board Still Life Study c.1900 sub-Religion & Relics the university

the university

with one mid-1930s newspaper article stating

with no losses to the carved extremities

The labels are all in tact though some have been re-glued to the bottles at the corners

The fielded paneled sides are unusual however and signal a much better quality period painted piece than what one would normally expect

A Naïve English School Oil on Board Still Life Study c.1900 sub-Religion & Relics the universityOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1900Height: 21. 5Width: 26. 5Depth: 1Painted in oils on board in the nave style, the charming depiction of a still life consisting of a scrolled and fluted classical urn, open book and horn rimmed reading spectacles, upon a washed sea green and sand coloured ground, the whole presented in a later white painted frame, and surviving from the zeniths of the nineteenth century. The painting