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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;blooey, post: 1564023, member: 12007&quot;]Your picture has been relined. No big deal, most paintings of that age have had some resto, a reline is very common. </p><p>More interesting, (on a personal level) is the chalk mark &quot;pendarren&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>As chance would have it, I was born and educated very near Pendarren, or as it is more properly written, &quot;Pen-y-Darren&quot;. Penydarren began as a Roman settlement but toward the end of the 18thc was one of the birthplaces of the Industrial revolution. The very first railway EVER built began in Penydarren. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Ironmaster Samuel Hofray had a bet with another industrialist, Richard Crawshay of Cyfarthfa, that he could transport his iron and steel faster than by canal (he built a railroad) and with the proceeds of the bet, built Penydarren House on the site of the old Roman fort.</p><p><br /></p><p>from the Wikipedia article on Penydarren house:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;sufficiently removed from the town by the extent of the pleasure grounds, and contains all the conveniences and the luxuries requisite for a family of wealth and importance, Homfray was waited on by servants who were dressed in a <b>scarlet and buff</b> livery, while he was driven everywhere in a coach and four horses&quot;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penydarren" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penydarren" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penydarren</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If you do buy the portrait, it might be worth contacting the curator of the Cyfarthfa Castle museum in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales (my old school) to ask if they have any portraits in the collection that match the boy in your painting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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