An old lining on an old stretcher - most keys missing and tension fairly slack. The original tacking margins have been removed as can be seen at the face where the top of the canvas is exposed. There are damages to the original canvas along the bottom edge including a ruck in the bottom right corner.

There is a finescale brittle age craquelure throughout, with finescale flaking both historic and some more recent patches. There are lines of restored and unrestored losses associated with stretcher bar marks on all sides, with unrestored losses to bottom and right, and larger restored losses to top and left. Old restoration has discoloured and cracked slightly. There has been flaking in the past at all edges - unfilled.

The 'George Leyburne' is painted in a later hand, different to age/date. There is some reinforcing overpaint to hair and eyes (see images in UV). It is difficult to gauge if there is any older overpaint in the background due to the thick obscuring old varnish.

There has been some abrasion in places to the upper layers of paint, for example in patches to the brown shirt, grey collar and hair.

There is an old opaque, patchy yellowed and milky varnish layer, and old ingrained dirt. Scattered minor surface abrrasions and scratches, with a large 1 inch scuff bottom left corner. A layer of surface dirt.

Examined in frame.

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