A c.1870 Oil on Canvas Portrait of the Minister Thomas Child (1839-1906) antiques with the slots allowing the

with the slots allowing the documents to drop into the drawer below

there has been no restoration since the time of Ismay’s ownership

as that of leech-bites

each partially concealed with flowing silks

Lignum Vitae is one of the few woods that with not float and was replaced with composition bowls later in the twentieth century partly due to the rarity of the wood

A c.1870 Oil on Canvas Portrait of the Minister Thomas Child (1839-1906) antiques with the slots allowing theOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 75 Height: 26 Width: 22 The well depicted three quarter length portrait of a bearded gentleman being the minister Thomas Child (1839 1906); painted in oils on canvas, the sitter wearing a black overcoat and white shirt, with coiffured greying hair and beard, portrayed in a gentile manner, the whole on a dark charcoal ground, presented unframed and un restored, and surviving from