An Interesting c.1640-80 Oil on Canvas Portrait of a GentlemanOrigin: 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