Late 18th-Century Double-Sided Romanian Icon, Three Holy Hierarchs & The Baptism Of Christ

Late 18th-Century Double-Sided Romanian Icon, Three Holy Hierarchs & The Baptism Of ChristThis intriguing late 18th century double sided Romanian icon depicts the Three Holy Hierarchs & the baptism of Christ. Its a fascinating survivor. Rendered in tempera and gold leaf on a wooden panel, double sided icons, such as this from around 1790, were often suspended from liturgical polycandela (candelabras) and swung by the clergy. They were popular in Orthodox churches, such as those in the Balkans and Greece. On one side, we see the Three Holy

On his day

His brother was an artist who exhibited at the RSA and lived in Edinburgh

where he won a medal

who deserves his place among the better-known mid-Victorian marine painters

He continued working into old age and spent his later years in the suburbs of Paris with his wife and children

800 for ‘Haymaking

and commitment to working outdoors

Overall size: 29” x 34” / 74cm x 86cm

1280-1340) and his workshop

Celebrated Victorian art critic John Ruskin proclaimed William Henry Hunt as ‘all in all

hence the discolouration

One senses not hardship but companionship - the kind of modest