After Sir Godfrey Kneller; An Early 18thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of King George I c.1714 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage This is a Christie’s Auction

This is a Christie’s Auction House stencil

It was in the thirteenth century that the game as it is played today became popular though there is a positive recorded history of bowls having been played in England as far back as the 12th century

and Naples formed a coalition against France

which would go someway to explaining the accumulation of dirt on the face and also the position of the tail

After Sir Godfrey Kneller; An Early 18thC Oil on Canvas Portrait of King George I c.1714 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage This is a Christie’s AuctionOrigin: English School Period: George I Provenance: Ex Christies London, 30th October, 1959 Date: c. 1714 Height: 30 Width: 25 Depth: 1 The unframed early eighteenth century oil on canvas portrait of King George I, shown bust length depicting the King with the collar of a Knight of the Garter over his coronation robes, bearing a Christies stencil verso for 423 MA, the whole surviving from the first quarter of the eighteenth century, most likely from