English school (19th century)

Portrait of a boy, oil on panel, extensively inscribed to the back of the frame 'William Wilberforce Bird Jr, 1832 aged 10 years and six months', 14 x 12cm

From the Estate of Francis and Larissa Haskell. Francis Haskell (1928-2000) was an art historian, author and professor of Art History at the University of Oxford. His wife Larissa (1931-2024) was a noted Russian art historian, and was curator of Venetian drawings at the Hermitage.