Description
painted in gilt and colours and sculpted in relief with a country toad marked with a cross and bearing the inscription SONNET BY CHRISTINA ROSETTI, later frame
Dimensions
75.5cm x 107cm
Footnote
Note: Frank Lynn Jenkins inherited his father's marble merchant business H.T. Jenkins and Son, and developed it into a business of international standing involved in the execution of work such as Thomas Brock's Queen Victoria Memorial in the Mall, the Whitehall Cenotaph and William Goscombe John's monument to the Marquis of Salisbury in Westminster Abbey, among many other prestigious commissions. With the painter and a fellow student, Gerald E. Moira he developed an innovative style of painted, low relief, plaster panels employed in a commission they won from the restaurateur Joe Lyons to decorate the entrance to the Trocadero Restaurant, Shaftsbury Avenue. This was followed by other similar schemes at the Throgmorton Restaurant, the Hotel Metropole, Folkestone, the Passmore Edwards Library, Shoreditch and a library in a private house in Beverley, North Yorkshire from where the present lot was sited.