A Mid-19thC Victorian Period Floral Still Life Velvet Painting c.1850 sub-Architectural & Garden These pictures would have hung

These pictures would have hung in the stairwell or main sitting room in a larger country pile or Georgian townhouse and their naïve style and style of the frames suggests they may well have been painted away from the larger cities at the time

In this way

This success launched young Walter on a career preparing stuffed animals for Victorian parlours and his growing stock meant a move to new premises in 1866 and again in 1880 to the specially constructed building still in Bramber today

in the Gothic style

There is a small hook to the top so that the mirror can be hung from the wall

A Mid-19thC Victorian Period Floral Still Life Velvet Painting c.1850 sub-Architectural & Garden These pictures would have hungOrigin: English Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1850 Height: 27. 5 Width: 23 Depth: 0. 75 The early Victorian floral still life depicting a myriad of flowers and foliage in wondrous colours, painted on velvet and sometimes coined as theorem, with two butterflies and a birds nest laden with eggs, the flowers within a fluted vase atop a ledge and held within a period burr maple frame surviving from the late nineteenth century in