A Fine c.1830 Oil on Canvas Portrait of Saint Anthony of Padua Holding a Lily by Henry Perlee Parker, H.R.S.A. (1795-1873) sub-Antiques The iron gnomon is original

The iron gnomon is original and has some signs of oxidisation

never the same when studied for the second or indeed the hundredth time

tea was the first commodity ever to be advertised in a London newspaper

and other British flags

goggling eyes and curled tails survive from the first quarter of the twentieth century

A Fine c.1830 Oil on Canvas Portrait of Saint Anthony of Padua Holding a Lily by Henry Perlee Parker, H.R.S.A. (1795-1873) sub-Antiques The iron gnomon is originalOrigin: English Period: Early Mid Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1815 40 Height: 24 inches Width: 20 inches The atmospheric work, painted in oils on canvas, depicting Saint Anthony of Padua glancing downward in thought and holding a lily stalk as a sign of his purity, survives from mid nineteenth century Europe, probably Italy, and is presented unframed, and signed top left HP PARKER Pinxit for the renowned history painter Henry