WOW !!! INVESTMENT ART - RARE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE WATERCOLOR BY LT.COL BASIL JACKSON (1795 - 1889)

 THIS SAME PAINTING WAS LISTED ON MUTUAL ART

 

Basil Jackson (1775-1889) all drawn from life when he was in charge of Napoleon’s household arrangements at Longwood, during the final years of captivity on the island of St Helena. Jackson made many sketches and there are also paintings, all very much alike, taken from his original life drawings. These occasionally come up for auction and one in particular, on a highly reputable online auction site in the US, was almost identical to the sketch among Molloy’s papers. (For copyright reasons I can’t include the online image here: ‘The Exile, Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, standing small, on St Helena with Longwood House beyond inscribed beneath the mount’

 

THIS LINK WILL ADD SOME MORE INSIGHT AND PROVENANCE INTO THE ARTIST