Portrait of Smoking Man, Fine 19th C. John Henry Sylvester British Watercolor Drawing snowman painting --but whether the actual case

--but whether the actual case or or not

and this puffin is so similar in manner I am nearly certain it is Grenfell Mission as well

effortlessly emerging at some point from this sheet of muted green paper

The cardboard I believe was not too long ago glued to a piece of foam core to stabilize it

it's in good condition and certainly could  be used

Portrait of Smoking Man, Fine 19th C. John Henry Sylvester British Watercolor Drawing snowman painting --but whether the actual caseA terrific late 19th c. watercolor portrait, of a manner that makes me think of Manet or John Singer Sargent, etc, with an equivalent sort of confidence and sense of ease about it. It appears to be signed John Henry Sylvester at the bottom and dated what looks to be 1896 (?) which points perhaps to the British artist of the same name, active in the last few decades of the 19th c. and by whom there is one portrait in the National Portrait Gallery in