[GARIBALDI GIUSEPPE]: (1807-1882) Italian General and Politician, one of Italy's 'fathers of the fatherland'. A mid to late 19th century reverse portrait on glass painting of Garibaldi, the oval (14 x 17) portrait depicting the General in a head and shoulders pose, in uniform. Unsigned and by an unknown artist, with the red title Garibaldi to the left edge. Framed and glazed in the original ornate gilt wooden frame to an overall size of 20 x 23.5. With several later ink annotations and a newspaper clipping relating to Garibaldi pasted to the back of the frame, one signed by a Neville Blakey and stating ‘This superb painting in oil on canvas is by an unknown artist, is attached to the convex of glass & was obtained from the collection of C. M. Cooper, Rosehill Road, Burnley, May 8 1938 by my father J. H. Blakey’. G