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Benno Fischer, Portrait Of A Seated Gentleman

1848

This mid-19th-century oil painting by British artist John Robert Wildman (1788-1843) depicts a gentleman wearing a dark brown frock coat with waistcoat, white shirt and cravat. He be...

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