ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY A full-length portrait study of a young boy in Scottish dress

ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY A full-length portrait study of a young boy in Scottish dress reclin-ing on a rocky outcrop, a three barelled gun resting under his right hand, indistinctly signed, dated 1848 and inscribed "Brighton" lower right, watercolour, 49cm x 36cm in a pierced foliate gilt frame It is believed that the model in this portrait is the young King Edward VII, who turned seven in 1848. The com-position appears to be heavily influenced by Sir Thomas Lawrence's famous portrait of Charles William Lamb-ton 'The Red Boy', executed in 1825