Lot 185 , Thomas Williams of Barbados (19th C.), Portrait of a British army officer wearing a red uniform jacket and medals, oil on canvas, 27.5 x 22cm

Thomas Williams of Barbados (19th C.)
Portrait of a British army officer wearing a red uniform jacket and medals
oil on canvas
inscribed verso and dated Barbados Octr 1840
27.5 x 22cm
£500-800

Condition:
Oil on original canvas in somewhat neglected condition, stretcher marks showing along with some fine and broad craquelure running throughout the paint, together with a number of small flaking patches, apparently unsigned to the front, housed in the rubbed probably original gilt frame, inscribed on the back of the canvas which is made by a New York supplier P.Caff..., top of the stretcher has a tantalisingly faint inscription which I would guess as being Lieut. Colonel W... Thompson, RA? Regt Oct 1840,

Sold for £460