Late 18th-Century French School, Portrait Of A Gentleman Watercolour it was described as “an

it was described as “an old master study of flowers in the National Gallery”

looking down with her right hand supporting her head

Shropshire

when Carl Bille painted this scene

The furnishings

Late 18th-Century French School, Portrait Of A Gentleman Watercolour it was described as “anThis charming late 18th century French portrait captures a gentleman at the height of fashion an era when powdered wigs and elaborately dressed hair reached architectural proportions, and neckwear seemed to rebel against practicality. Produced around 1780, during the glittering final decades before the French Revolution, the sitter is furnished with an extraordinary coiffure together with an exuberantly tied white cravat that almost threatens to