Patch repair to reverse, see images. Cleaned and revarnished. Stretcher shadow most notably upper right-hand side edge. Medium-sized cracquelure across the surface but most evident within the background closest to the sitter but not exclusively. As also more evident across his waist area. Some light surface dirt and discoloured varnish. Sporadic and delicate retouches to the background. Mostly left hand side upper section presumably to replace old flaked paint. Odd small retouch to face and delicate infilling to old cracquelure. Likewise very sporadic retouches to his chest area and delicate infilling to cracquelure within the upper part of his white cross strap. Further isolated infilling to cracquelure across his left arm. Small patch of retouching above lower edge within the background between his wrist and lower edge. Associated retouching to the front in line with patch repair to the back and some likely strengthening through the darker tones through the gentleman's hair. Possibly some strengthening to background lower corner etc.

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