Early 19th-Century English School, Portrait Of Samuel Jones Of Skeyton, Norfolk Summer Condition: Craquelure but the paint

Condition: Craquelure but the paint is stable following its consolidation

alongside the eminent Elias Martin ARA (1739-1818)

The portrait is housed within a black lacquered frame that’s probably the original

braced against the elements

which altered his mindset irrevocably

Early 19th-Century English School, Portrait Of Samuel Jones Of Skeyton, Norfolk Summer Condition: Craquelure but the paintThis fine early 19th century English oil painting depicts Samuel Jones of Skeyton, Norfolk, smartly attired in a black coat with white cravat. The portrait was previously in the collection of William Sidney Charles Copeman CBE TD FRCP (1900 1970), a medical historian. Following a thorough search of the ancestry records, it appears that Samuel Jones was born in 1762 to Thomas and Mary of Halvergate, Norfolk, but, following his marriage in 1779 to