English School c.1840 oil on canvas Naive portrait of a pipe player seated in a pastoral landscape 35. x 28in. CONDITION: Oil on canvas cleaned and relined within the past 10 - 20 years or so, canvas remains tight, paint in good clean condition with a fine but stable craquelure throughout most of the paint, some sign of old bitumous bubbling across the top, possibly some retouching throughout notably the bowl on the trunk of the tree and around the knee, red flowers and lower corner, housed in an old tatty 19th century frame, no labels verso.