alongside the eminent Elias Martin ARA (1739-1818)
The abundant joy in a basic task illuminated with the incandescence of Summer
The portrait is housed within a black lacquered frame that’s probably the original
And the teacups with resting spoons to stir in the sugar lumps piled in a glass dish
Carsten Henrichsen (1824-1897) has captured the wind-swept scenery perfectly and the whole composition seems to be leaning left
Early 19th-Century English School, Portrait Of Samuel Jones Of Skeyton, Norfolk Summer alongside the eminent Elias MartinThis fine early 19th century English oil painting depicts Samuel Jones of Skeyton, Norfolk, smartly attired in a black coat with white cravat. The portrait was previously in the collection of William Sidney Charles Copeman CBE TD FRCP (1900 1970), a medical historian. Following a thorough search of the ancestry records, it appears that Samuel Jones was born in 1762 to Thomas and Mary of Halvergate, Norfolk, but, following his marriage in 1779 to