An Interesting c.1640-80 Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman sub-Antiques The condition of the ladder

The condition of the ladder is totally original so remains un cleaned and un restored so decoratively it is delightful with other splattered colours of paint visible

with ruddy cheeks and a fixed

He used pneumatic devices and was the first to use electromagnetic devices to animate his figures

or merely as a decorative throwback to a bygone era

Madame Tussaud came to Britain in the early 19th century alongside a traveling exhibition of revolutionary relics and effigies of public heroes and rogues

An Interesting c.1640-80 Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Gentleman sub-Antiques The condition of the ladderOrigin: English Period: Cromwellian Charles II Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1650 80 Height: 13. 5 inches Width: 10. 5 inches The well realised bust portrait of a middle aged to elderly (for the time) gentleman wearing a ruff depicted on a dark ground, and possibly a fragment from a larger composition, survives from seventeenth century England. The condition of the painting is unrestored, uncleaned and unframed and is in as found order and does show