A Charming Late 19thC Naïve School Oil on Canvas; Still Life of Flowers sub-Antiques our intelligent guess as to

our intelligent guess as to Mr Edmund Heap’s identity is that he was born in 1887 in Burnley

Walter Potter was born in 1835 and began to experiment with taxidermy by the age of 15

It is unclear whether this album is at all related to Gatty or those around her but the blatant presence of the magazine extract leads us to believe she is either connected to this collection or is perhaps the muse for it

he received numerous honours

A Charming Late 19thC Naïve School Oil on Canvas; Still Life of Flowers sub-Antiques our intelligent guess as toOrigin: English Period: Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1890 1900 Canvas Height: 19. 5 inches Canvas Width: 15. 5 inches With Frame: 26 X 22 inches Painted in oils on canvas in the nave style, depicting a still life of largely chrysanthemum flowers in whites, pinks, greens and oranges, upon a smoky ebony ground, the posy bunched in a gold vase sat on a ledge, the whole presented in its original acorn leaf gilt wood and gesso