Keywords: JohnHowardDrawing.jpg en Apparently unsigned portrait of the prison reformer John Howard on display in Bedford Museum I have done my best to extract a meaningful image with the GIMP image processing utility Clearly much of what is visible is noise of one sort or another But I have tried to preserve the original artist's work and don't think I can go any further without intruding on this own Simon Speed 2010-04-01 Clearly a contemporary portrait of the subject who died in 1790 the original artwork is well out of copyright John Howard prison reformer Bedford Museum Bedford Photos by Simon Speed 18th-century oval portraits of men 1790 18th-century portrait drawings of men at bust length 1790 Powdered wigs in art 1790 |