Description

Summary: portrait of ?mariner, wearing a cravat with a brooch pin; ?early-mid 19th century; wooden frame; unglazed

Identification note: could be portrait of Captain Stevens of Corfe Castle referred to in record for brooch 95:1743 (POOMS:1988.069), showing mourning brooch being worn as cravat pin; also writer of letter on voyage to New York 1830