Portrait of Smoking Man, Fine 19th C. John Henry Sylvester British Watercolor Drawing documentary photograph with another cross over the

with another cross over the door

which shows a stable crack at far lower left

and featuring wonderful gold borders and tiny gold dots art the center of each black dot

this one's in very good shape

Portrait of Smoking Man, Fine 19th C. John Henry Sylvester British Watercolor Drawing documentary photograph with another cross over theA terrific late 19th c. watercolor portrait, of a manner that makes me think of Manet or John Singer Sargent, etc, with an equivalent sort of confidence and sense of ease about it. It appears to be signed John Henry Sylvester at the bottom and dated what looks to be 1896 (?) which points perhaps to the British artist of the same name, active in the last few decades of the 19th c. and by whom there is one portrait in the National Portrait Gallery in