Tom Keating (British, 1917-1984); An Unfinished Oil on Canvas sub-Macabre- Medicine Late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century

Late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century parents commissioned likenesses of their offspring for the same reasons that prompt us to bedeck our youngsters in Sunday-best attire and haul them off to the photographer's

A very good example

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Tom Keating (British, 1917-1984); An Unfinished Oil on Canvas sub-Macabre- Medicine Late eighteenth and early nineteenth-centuryOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late 20thCProvenance: Tom Keating Studio Sale 10 October 1984 Lot 169Date: c. 1980Height: 30Width: 35The unfinished oil on canvas study in rectangular form, by notorious art forger Tom Keating (1917 1984), of an unknown lucid religious scene predominantly in reds and yellows and stamped to verso Tom Keating Studio Sale 10 October 1984 Lot 169, and possibly his last ever painting. The picture remains in completely original