A Large c.1800 Oil on Canvas: An Allegorical Vanitas Composition Portrait of a Lady sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles two of them in corners

two of them in corners where it has obviously been hung for display

along Gravel Lane then Stoney Lane

now chipped and distressed

5 inches (the board)

A Large c.1800 Oil on Canvas: An Allegorical Vanitas Composition Portrait of a Lady sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles two of them in cornersOrigin: French or Eastern European Period: Late Eighteenth Early Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1790 1820 Canvas: 41. 5 inches x 27. 5 inches The Whole in Frame: 45. 5 inches x 31. 5 inches The large and colourful allegorical depiction painted in oils on canvas, of a young and pretty lady reclining on clouds dressed in neo classical clothing in scarlet and white, clad in period dress holding and being offered to a variety of vanitas