Italian Renaissance Bearded Notable Portrait

Copy of a portrait painting of a bearded man in grey suit, white shirt and blue bow tie Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use

Spanish Renaissance-style oil painting of a man in a ruff in a rectangular gilt wood frame

This traditionally rendered portrait captures an older man in rich detail, his long, bushy grey beard and deeply shadowed eyes giving weight and presence to the composition. Dressed...

An unsigned canvas depicting two bearded ‘Renaissance’ gentlemen painted from the waist up in a loving posterior embrace. The painting is very likely English late 17th or 18th century. Relined well over a hundred years ago which suggests that the work may be 17th or 18 century. Presently in a contemporary, compatible frame. The canvas relining was done by John Peel who was active in London in the early 19thC. John Peel worked from Golden Square, London 1819, 7 Naylors Yard 1820-1834, 17 Golden Square 1832-1843, 17-18 Golden Square 1844-1858, 12 Marlborough Row as carver and gilder...