An Intriguing 19thC Continental School Oil on Canvas of Revellers Fleeing from a Ghostly Apparition sub-Antiques Chastleton House was built between

Chastleton House was built between 1607 and 1612 by a prosperous wool merchant as an impressive statement of wealth and power

The painting is titled to verso ‘The Shipwreck`d (sic) Mariner’ and signed I Armstead and dated to 1831 to the front and is presented in un-cleaned and un-restored condition

there is some slight movement to this top section

To A Sea Bird (Santa Cruz 1869)

and by the 1950s became the most successful toy manufacturer in the world

An Intriguing 19thC Continental School Oil on Canvas of Revellers Fleeing from a Ghostly Apparition sub-Antiques Chastleton House was built betweenOrigin: Continental, Probably Flemish Period: Mid Late Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1860 80 Canvas Height: 13. 5 inches Canvas Width: 17. 5 inches Painted in oils on canvas, the lively composition showing a group of revellers in period dress captured in shock and surprise, fleeing a ghostly masked and cloaked apparition center right, and duly fleeing out of two doors, one at the top of a flight of stairs, is apparently unsigned.