Portrait of John Frederic La Trobe Bateman (1810-1889) mb-height 4629 plays a wealthy young american

plays a wealthy young american botany student

and a church spire visible through the foliage in the centre

The body is that of a fifty year old

Bela Zola Life in the Mirror Series

1st February 1992

Portrait of John Frederic La Trobe Bateman (1810-1889) mb-height 4629 plays a wealthy young americanHalf length portrait of Bateman, seated and posed reading a book. The sitter's face is in half profile, turned to the left as viewed and looking slightly downward. Printed below the image: 'MAULL & FOX, 187A PICCADILLY, LONDON'. The reverse has various inscriptions including a series of printed coats of arms and 'MAULL & FOX PHOTOGRAPHERS TO THE ROYAL FAMILY Portrait and Miniature Painters, 187A, PICCADILLY LONDON. Marion Imp. Paris.' There is a