Young at Heart Black & White a superb quality portrait by

a superb quality portrait by an unknown artist from the second half of the eighteenth century

make the Atlantic crossing to fish on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland

I’m not sure if this is a portrait from life or Levenson’s imagined ideal

Both beautifully rendered and so redolent of 1930s America

Described as the ‘Grandfather of British illustration’ (thank you Chris Beetles) his economy of line was said to have modernised his trade and certainly influenced the next generation of cartoonists from Frank Reynolds to David Low

Young at Heart Black & White a superb quality portrait byMedium Details: Oil pastel, ink, graphite, sgraffito on acid free board