A fine oil on canvas portrait of a gentleman by the highly regarded artist Arthur Spooner 1873-1962. The large canvas shows the figure seated in a typical half-length portrait pose against a cloth background. The work is almost certainly a commissioned piece and an official portrait, though the sitter is sadly not named. The painting is beautifully created with a wonderful use of colour and layers, broad confident brushwork and a great eye to character. The work is in excellent condition having been sympathetically cleaned. The gilt frame is the original and typical for this artist’s work with a bronzed gold finish and only minor repairs. The piece is signed to the lower right and dated 1942. Arthur Spooner (1873–1962) was a British Impressionist painter from Nottingham, England. Spooner was born in Nottingham and trained at the Nottingham School of Art (now part of Nottingham Trent University) in the late 19th century. He later taught landscape and figurative painting there in the ear...