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Overall size: 5½” x 8½” / 14cm x 22cm

This late 19th-century oil painting by Danish artist Eiler Rasmussen Eilersen (1827-1912) depicts an idyllic forest landscape with a cottage and figures

a view along Noordstraat

the question of his disposal should then be raised

Mid-18th-Century German School, Portrait Of An Aristocrat In Armour maritime 721 for ‘Portrait Of AThis mid 18th century half length German portrait depicts a middle aged aristocrat wearing armour and a wig. Despite his heavily clad appearance, its likely that this rather nonchalant nobleman has little to do with military affairs as armour was often worn simply to convey status. Indeed, hes shrouded himself in a rather ostentatious cloak lined with, what appears to be, leopard fur. Hardly practical attire for a quaggy battlefield. Atop his head, he