John Falkner

Image credit: Gloucester Museums Service Art Collection

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Oil portrait of John Falkner in his mayoral robes painted on English oak. There is a blank panel along the base in which a poetic inscription would have appeared, but this has been scrubbed away. The surface has been aggressively cleaned, his lips have been strengthened.

Gloucester Life Museum

Gloucester

Title

John Falkner

Medium

oil on wood panel

Measurements

H 82.2 x W 73.3 cm

Accession number

GLRCM : Art01071

Acquisition method

gift, 1959

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Master, John Falkner / 3 : Times maioer of the / city of Gloucester

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