Circle of John Opie (1761–1807); A Good Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman sub-Art & Sculpture her hair tied in bunches

her hair tied in bunches

they were imminently practical in an age without photography

and surviving from the first quarter of eighteenth-century Spain

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Circle of John Opie (1761–1807); A Good Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman sub-Art & Sculpture her hair tied in bunchesOrigin: 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