A Large Carved & Painted Oak Architectural Memorial for Henry Kitcher (1789-1857) sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage We can’t find another example

We can’t find another example of primitive or naïve painting like this executed on slate having recently been sold

A highly decorative piece for the garden or indeed the home

British connoisseurs labelled it garish and having graced the homes of aristocrats in London

with a rectangular cavity to the reverse and standing on an integral square base surviving from early nineteenth century France and an unknown cemetery

A highly desirable nugget of iconic mid-century exhibition artwork and also a very scarce piece of ephemera

A Large Carved & Painted Oak Architectural Memorial for Henry Kitcher (1789-1857) sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage We can’t find another exampleOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Early Victorian Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1857Height: 16. 5Width: 66Depth: 1. 5The large and beautifully sign written dry oak memorial, at well over five feet long, having black hand painted script with line decorated border reading Sacred to the memory of Henry Kitcher, departed this life, 16th October, 1857, aged 68 years, thy brother shall rise again, the whole surviving from the early Victorian period in original