Portrait of William Kingdon Clifford (1845-1879) mb-code 1238163 Beryl Burton & Henry Cooper

Beryl Burton & Henry Cooper

The almshouses and school in Pitfield Street

by William Reid Clanny

Terry Cobner

Portrait of William Kingdon Clifford (1845-1879) mb-code 1238163 Beryl Burton & Henry CooperA landscape format picture in which Clifford looks directly to the viewer, posed side on and working at his desk. An untidy scatter of books and papers is on the desktop; with a glass inkwell beside which Clifford holds a quill pen poised in his right hand. Above this, on the wall to the upper left is a framed photograph with a family group. Clifford has reddish brown swept back hair and a full beard and wears a black coat. William Clifford was