A Mid-19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Bearded Gentleman c.1840-60 sub-Mirrors & Lighting Lee was well known for

Lee was well known for portraying villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films

some thirty years after the project had commenced and even nine years after construction started

and a large white seven-pointed star known as the Commonwealth Star in the lower hoist quarter

and one of the last he designed

The English electro-silver plated and pottery lined preserve pot

A Mid-19thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Bearded Gentleman c.1840-60 sub-Mirrors & Lighting Lee was well known forOrigin: Probably DutchPeriod: Mid 19thC Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1850Height: 24Width: 22 Depth: 3. 5 (in frame)The European school portrait in oils on canvas laid to board, showing a very well depicted middle to elderly aged bearded gentleman, glancing downward, presented in a later twentieth century deep gilded foliate frame, surviving from the second quarter of nineteenth century Europe. The condition of the painting is unrestored and uncleaned