Portrait of a Russian Commissar Urban Signed by the artist on

Signed by the artist on the reverse

Medium: Watercolour on Paper

Jones designed the celebrated Banqueting House in 1619

Date: 1950s

Portrait of a Russian Commissar Urban Signed by the artist onArtist: Unknown Austrian artist Date: 1945 to 1955 Medium: Watercolour on Paper Paper size: 44cm by 34cm Painted on a page from a sketchbook, this 1940s watercolour depicts a Russian soldier, likely to be a commissar. The portrait is part of a series of similar portraits that were executed by an unknown Austrian artist in the 1940s 1950s, presumably during the Soviet occupation of Northern Austria from 1945 to 1955. The portrait offers a close study