Sunday 28 August 2022

Lost Cromwell Masterpiece £££ Priceless

 


A recently discovered portrait of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, goes under the hammer at Christies this coming week, with reserve bids from collectors world-wide estimated to be in the multi-millions of Pounds Sterling.

This work in oil, by Puritan painter and decorator, Frank McTadger, (circa 1652) shows Cromwell - aka Old Ironsides - in his Friday night special Men in Black fetish armour, wielding a length of copper pipe and about to fix a troublesome leak on the Westminster Palace central heating system before heading out for a Cavalier Bashing session around the fleshpot sinks and dives of Whitechapel.

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