An Interesting English Naïve School Oil on Panel of an Imprisoned Man with Wildcats c.1825-35 sub-Curios He has built various monsters

He has built various monsters and animation figures for computer games and TV commercials

The miniature elongated heart shape stay busk

5 inches long

The use of reliquaries became an important part of Christian practices from at least the 4th century and provided a means of protecting and displaying relics

The original plate glass is nicely foxed with an even spread to the whole plate

An Interesting English Naïve School Oil on Panel of an Imprisoned Man with Wildcats c.1825-35 sub-Curios He has built various monstersOrigin: English Period: Early 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1825 35 Height: 11 Width: 14. 5 Depth: 0. 75 The primitive and naive depiction in oils on thick rough hewn oak panel, showing a young man in period dress slumped to the floor and detained in a prison cell, with a lion to one flank and with his arm around a tiger to the other. with its young, the tiger licking his face, the whole surviving from the second quarter of the nineteenth