Portrait of Smoking Man, Fine 19th C. John Henry Sylvester British Watercolor Drawing snowman painting whether to be put to

whether to be put to function as a frame or not

It folds back up elegantly to form a rectangular box with perfectly square sides

which I mounted in a simple white frame

Quite a beauty our Agnès is here I'd say

it's in good condition and certainly could  be used

Portrait of Smoking Man, Fine 19th C. John Henry Sylvester British Watercolor Drawing snowman painting whether to be put toA terrific late 19th c. watercolor portrait, of a manner that makes me think of Manet or John Singer Sargent, etc, with an equivalent sort of confidence and sense of ease about it. It appears to be signed John Henry Sylvester at the bottom and dated what looks to be 1896 (?) which points perhaps to the British artist of the same name, active in the last few decades of the 19th c. and by whom there is one portrait in the National Portrait Gallery in