Portrait of John Bowring (1792-1872) mb-width 3044 'The self created brute

'The self created brute

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a scene at Smithfield Market with a man leading a woman on a rope in the centre

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Portrait of John Bowring (1792-1872) mb-width 3044 'The self created bruteHalf length seated studio portrait of John Bowring, looking to camera, the carved back of a chair visible behind, with a curtain or drape above. Bowring wears spectacles. A sheaf of papers is visible in his inside coat pocket and he holds a pencil or pen in his right hand, the top of which is visible at the lower edge of the picture. Printed below the image: 'WILSON & BEADELL, 69, NEW BOND STREET, Photographers to the Queen.' Information repeated