Or rather Thomas, our builder. It’s neat that Thomas has an eye for this and appreciates the historical. What Thomas found was a portrait by T.M. Gill and although it’s incomplete it’s a lovely find. T.M. Gill first turned up when we found graffiti from him or her dated 1883, see we found some 100 year graffiti/
It’s odd that T.M. Gill is never mentioned in the records, but due to the artistic nature of the work I am having to lean to T.M. Gill as being female.
We will try and save as much as this wall as possible, but as you will find in a future post, this wall collapsed as we Aimee, Thomas and I were taking the following photos.
From the photos you see the oval portrait bordered in blue with the initials T.M.G visible at “4 o’clock”. It’s a shame the eyes are missing but the hair, ear, up-turned moustache are clearly visible.
The basement room they were found in had an earthen floor so this was probably the least special room in he house. I’d like to think that this was the work of a teenager.
We’ve found some pretty cool stuff in the house, but I think we have come the end of discoveries. I’d like to be surprised but I’ not expecting any other finds.
Thomas will try and say this part of the collapsed wall, but it may not be possible. I’d like to call out to local artists to see if they can re-create the portrait on canvas based on what they can see. Does anyone know of any techniques to expose any further remnants of this old portrait?
