An Intriguing 19thC Continental School Oil on Canvas of Revellers Fleeing from a Ghostly Apparition

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An Intriguing 19thC Continental School Oil on Canvas of Revellers Fleeing from a Ghostly ApparitionOrigin: Continental, Probably Flemish Period: Mid Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1860 80 Canvas Height: 13. 5 inches Canvas Width: 17. 5 inches Painted in oils on canvas, the lively composition showing a group of revellers in period dress captured in shock and surprise, fleeing a ghostly masked and cloaked apparition center right, and duly fleeing out of two doors, one at the top of a flight of stairs, is apparently unsigned.

competition from other firms led to falling sales

resulting in his sustaining facial injuries requiring plastic surgery and he disguised the traces with the huge handlebar moustache that later became his trademark (he was later a keen member of the Handlebar Club)

campaign furniture

This is an early example

As mentioned

Eyed Hawk Moth

and the articulated legs and neck are in working

and we like what we hear

and animals are crisp and well defined

a spiky chap but as soft as a brush and as hollow as the murmur of the midnight sea

75 inches wide x 8

The box also has its original working lock and key

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