Circle of John Opie (1761–1807); A Good Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage unlike quilting and patchwork

unlike quilting and patchwork

An exert of the time reads: “It is deserving of remark

Adriaen de Gryef died in 1715

probably from a relatively young male

with ebony inlaid frieze above two short and three long drawers sitting on French splayed bracket feet with attractively shaped aprons to the sides and centre

Circle of John Opie (1761–1807); A Good Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage unlike quilting and patchworkOrigin: EnglishPeriod: George IIIProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1790Height: 30. 25Width: 24. 75Painted within the circle of John Opie (17611807); in oils on canvas, the quarter length depiction of a distinguished gentleman in his fifties or sixties, using chiaroscuro, the sitter shown wearing a dark coat and white neckcloth, his hair(?) swept over his right eye, facing out to the viewer and set to a dark ground, presented unframed and surviving from the