A Mid-19thC Victorian Period Floral Still Life Velvet Painting c.1850 sub-Architectural & Garden with one rear leg stamped

with one rear leg stamped ‘50683’

This success launched young Walter on a career preparing stuffed animals for Victorian parlours and his growing stock meant a move to new premises in 1866 and again in 1880 to the specially constructed building still in Bramber today

in the Gothic style

The early to mid-Victorian period pine carcass of unusually large proportions with a fabulous craquelure period black painted finish over a slightly earlier brown stained coat having an arrangement of five drawers

A Mid-19thC Victorian Period Floral Still Life Velvet Painting c.1850 sub-Architectural & Garden with one rear leg stampedOrigin: English Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1850 Height: 27. 5 Width: 23 Depth: 0. 75 The early Victorian floral still life depicting a myriad of flowers and foliage in wondrous colours, painted on velvet and sometimes coined as theorem, with two butterflies and a birds nest laden with eggs, the flowers within a fluted vase atop a ledge and held within a period burr maple frame surviving from the late nineteenth century in