Large 18th Century European School portrait of a bride holding flowers, oil on canvas. Excellent quality and condition portrait of a young bride holding flowers and wearing a distinct traditional wedding headdress. Stencil verso from early Christies London Old Masters sale. Framed.
Measurements: 44" x 35" framed approx
Provenance: Single owner through descent, Cornwall, UK
British, 20th century, male.
Born 24 May 1884, in London; died 1967.
Painter. Portraits, architectural views, flowers, seascapes.
Garnet Ruskin Wolseley studied at the Bushey School of Painting and the Slade School of Fine Art in London under Henry Tonks and Fred Brown. From 1908 to 1913 he worked in Newlyn, Cornwall.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Louisville: Bygone Sussex
Penzance (Penlee House Gal. and Mus.): St Michael’s Mount (oil on canvas)
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