Arthur Lowther by Nightingale

This is one of two profile portraits featuring young gentlemen, each of them named. This serious-looking gentleman is Arthur Lowther and he is wearing a buttoned tail-coat, black waistcoat and white stock.

Pencil heightened with watercolour on card, signed and dated ‘Nightingale 1840’. It is set in a handsome bird’s eye maple frame with a gilt slip.