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A Good Pair of c.1870 English School Provincial Oil on Canvas Portraits of a Gentleman & His Wife sub-Antiques Most antique trumeau mirrors areOrigin: British Period: Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 Canvas Heights: 30 inches Canvas Widths: 25 inches The large unframed British school depictions of a gentleman and lady, shown half length and painted in oils on canvas, presumed husband and wife, survive from the middle to latter part of nineteenth century Britain. The pictures are in tired condition though prove very decorative. They suffer from losses with small sections of flaking