ENGLISH NAIVE ARTIST, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY? ? THE ROPEMAKERS' ARMS? inscribed on a banner?BEHOLD OUR SUPPORT, oil on panel, 19.5 x 28.5cmThe inscription "Behold our Support" is intended to portray the Ropemakers as grassroots defenders of 'Church, King and Constitution' the popular cry of Loyalists manifested in the new Conservative Association that sprung up in London and large towns across the Midlands and North in opposition to the corresponding societies and those who advocated reform, from the outbreak of war with France in 1793 until 1832 Old ingrained dirt; cleaned and lined, old worm holes in support