A Large 19thC Painted Plaster Portrait Library Bust of St. Francis of Assisi; Ex Milford House

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A Large 19thC Painted Plaster Portrait Library Bust of St. Francis of Assisi; Ex Milford HouseOrigin: Unknown Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Milford house, Co. Carlow, Ireland Date: c. 1890 1900 Height: 23 Width: 18 Depth: 10 (all at extremities) Base: 8 square The large late Victorian plaster library bust depicting St. Francis of Assisi, wearing ceremonial robes and large pendant on a linked chain, the whole on a stepped socle square base, showing the original laurel green paint now beautifully worn with age, and surviving from the late

Wonderfully weathered

and one nest

Many further editions of the work were published in the late 18th century and throughout the 19th century as we see here

yet extremely hard wearing and would make a definitive statement in the right setting

said: ‘He had a dose of distemper that lasted for about a week but he never really recovered properly from it

the male dummies head

the peacock blue upholstered needlepoint tapestry seat showing a tropical bird amongst a flowering urn

The well painted oil on canvas depicting Charles I (1600-1649) of England on a dark ebony ground

sits calmy

and so essentially represents one that has no past and no thought of the future

The Victorian Cabinet-Maker's Assistant in 1853

surviving from the third quarter of the ninteenth century