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

I've had a couple of old climbing toys of this manner in the shop

which shows a stable crack at far lower left

this one's in very good shape

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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