A Naïve English School Oil on Board Still Life Study c.1900 sub-Religion & Relics They sold the main house

They sold the main house in 1978-9

Like the Gothic style

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

serratus major anticus

What cannot be argued with however is that books are as still supremely valued today as they were in the time of the Tudors

A Naïve English School Oil on Board Still Life Study c.1900 sub-Religion & Relics They sold the main houseOrigin: 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