Details
English School, 1855
Portrait of John Brown, aged 9 years standing in a Landscape
inscribed 'John Brown, aged 9 years/the 9 of frebary 1885'; pencil and watercolour heightened with gum arabic
6½ x 5¼in. (16.5 x 13.3cm.)
In a birdseye maple veneer reverse profile frame.
Literature
James Ayres, British Folk Art, Barrie and Jenkins, London 1976. Overlook Press, Woodstock, N.Y. 1977. P.92.
James Ayres, English Naive Painting 1750-1900, Thames and Hudson, London and N.Y. 1981. Pl.26.

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