Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1850s.
He looks confidently out at the viewer, his beard and hair the styles in fashion for creative men at this time...the young Charles Dickens was painted by Ary Scheffer in 1855 with hair this length and beard of this type.

Born in 1831, David Simonson was aged 28 in this painting and living in London. He was at his most active at this time; from 1858 to 1859 he exhibited five paintings at the Royal Academy.
This intimate portrait is signed and dated "D. Simonson ipse pinx. 1859" (D. Simonson painted this of himself in 1859)
SIZE: 23.75 x 21.75 inches inc. frame
PROVENANCE: Southern English private collection.
Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1850s.
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