ASCRIBED TO COUNT ALFRED D'ORSAY (1801-1852) A portrait of a young gentleman in an interior

inscribed verso "Charles Dickens by Count D'Orsay", the sitter depicted three-quarter length, seated beside a desk, his left hand holding an open book that rests atop a small stack of other books, with classical style decoration behind, watercolour and gouache, 28cm x 20cm