An Early Victorian Oil on Board Portrait of Sarah Goring c.1840-45 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The lighthearted themes and intricate

The lighthearted themes and intricate designs of Rococo presented themselves best at a more intimate scale than the imposing Baroque architecture and sculpture

and lacquer were favoured rather than the ebony and ormolu that had been used at Carlton House for instance

Caulking refers to the method used to make wooden decks on ships watertight

One of the eyes has sunken slightly within the skull

the way in which we now expect a door stop to look and function today was down to a 19th century African American inventor named Osbourn Dorsey who came up with the design on December 10

An Early Victorian Oil on Board Portrait of Sarah Goring c.1840-45 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The lighthearted themes and intricateOrigin: UnknownPeriod: Early VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1840 45Height: 34. 5Width: 29. 5Depth: 1. 5The well realised half length depiction of Sarah Goring (nee Archer), in oils on canvas laid to board, clad in period dress, being a white lace dress with scarlet shawl, seated on a red armchair and looking out to the viewer, the whole presented in its original moulded gilt frame, the work surviving from start of Queen Victorias reign. The