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Description

The Bull and Mouth Inn, St Martin's Le Grand, City of London signed lower left with a monogram 'CHC' on a fish basket oil on canvas 52 x75cmm

Footnote: Provenance: Acquired by John Dunn Gardner (1811-1908) from Fores of Piccadilly on 24th December 1849 Exhibited: London, 144 Piccadilly, 'In Aid of the London Foot Hospital, The Loan Exhibition of Sporting Pictures held at 144 Piccadilly, W.I., by kind permission of Viscount Allendale', 6th Feb to 20th Feb 1931

Condition report: Oil on canvas which is unlined. The canvas tension is slack but the painting is in plane and stable. There is extensive, wholesale overpaint in the background and foreground of the painting. The original paint layers are thinly applied and have suffered from wear and abrasion. The overpaint 'crisps' up the architectural detail and cobbles but largely covers original paint. The varnish is clear, even and very glossy. The frame is in a good condition.

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