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Period Portraits has dated this Antique Oil Painting to the 19th Century.
He wears the traditional costume of gentlemen of status namely a white shirt black cravat and black velvet jacket and under this a silk waistcoat in the Clan Gordon tartan.
Wiscombe Park is a 19th-century Gothic country house in Southleigh Devon which stands in parkland some 3 miles west of Colyton, The house is a grade II* listed building.The parkland now hosts the 1000 yard (914 metre) Wiscombe Park Hillclimb course.
Wiscombe belonged in medieval times to Otterton Priory and was granted in the reign of Henry VIII to Sir William Bonville, in whose time the Park was stocked with deer. It then passed to the Marquis of Dorset, later the Duke of Suffolk, after whose attainder it passed first to the Petre family and then to the Hows, from whom it was bought c.1815 by Charles Gordon of the Gordon family (The Earls of Aberdeen). The present house was built in 1826 by Joseph Power of Colyton for Gordon on the site of the old manor house.
Charles Gordon died in 1858.
This fine work is in an excellent state of conservation and is presented ready to hang and enjoy in a high quality gilded 19th century style frame.
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Canvas: 86cm x 67cm.
Framed: 105cm x 85 cm.
Period Portraits has dated this Antique Oil Painting to the 19th Century.
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Sir John Watson Gordon (1788-1864) - Portrait of Charles Gordon and His Spaniel (D. 1858)
