A Naïve English School Oil on Board Still Life Study c.1900 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews a major industry in Surat

a major industry in Surat

but it is rumored they were invented in Greece many years ago with clamshells having featured as birdbaths all over the world

in about half an hour

here we see the original Georgian paint and the original brass mounts

There are several paper labels verso

A Naïve English School Oil on Board Still Life Study c.1900 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews a major industry in SuratOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1900Height: 21. 5Width: 26. 5Depth: 1Painted in oils on board in the nave style, the charming depiction of a still life consisting of a scrolled and fluted classical urn, open book and horn rimmed reading spectacles, upon a washed sea green and sand coloured ground, the whole presented in a later white painted frame, and surviving from the zeniths of the nineteenth century. The painting