Antique Oil on Canvas Orientalist Painting Moorish Spain "Gate of The Sun" Toledo by Pollok Sinclair Nesbit 1872 Paintings Signed and annotated “epreuve d’artiste”

Signed and annotated “epreuve d’artiste” in pencil

the writing surface having a red 'bull's blood' tooled & gilded leather

This miniature vinaigrette would have been worn as a locket on a chain

He made the sketches for the Palace of the Duchess of Castro Enríquez

signed on the bottom "LACHENAL Made In FRANCE"

Antique Oil on Canvas Orientalist Painting Moorish Spain "Gate of The Sun" Toledo by Pollok Sinclair Nesbit 1872 Paintings Signed and annotated “epreuve d’artiste”SOLD A large & important Orientalist oil on canvas painting, Moorish Spain, by Pollok Sinclair Nesbit (1848 1922) ASRA, "The Gate of the Sun" Toledo, 1872. A member of The Royal Scottish Academy (see below the Royal Academy's entry from 1922) Pollok Sinclair Nesbit was a talented artist & painted frequently in Italy, Spain, & North Africa. He excelled at painting Orientalist subjects such as The Alhambra in Granada and Arab scenes in Morocco &