Description
Spanish School. An 18th Century Oil on Canvas: Quarter Length Portrait of St Jerome. The elderly figure depicted with long grey bear; his watery eyes raised heavenwards, his hands resting on a skull, clutching a string of rosary beads and held in prayer, 22” x 28¼” (56 cm x 72 cm). Set in a fine giltwood frame boldly carved with a fruit and foliage surrounding an inner banderol edge, 27½” x 21¾” (70 cm x 55 cm).