Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2337Location: BostonDate / Time: November 04, 2006 3:00PM
Description:
American School, 19th Century
Portrait of Sea Captain John Dyer Potter of Duxbury, Massachusetts. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, c. 1830, 30 x 25 in. in a later molded giltwood frame. Condition: Relined, repaired tears with associated retouch.
Note: A fragment of paper accompanying the portrait is inscribed: "(John) Dyer Pot(ter) (Gre)at Uncle of John Potter Porter Born in Duxberri, (sic) Mass. Sea Captain-John Potter Porter was namesake of J.D.P."
Estimate $1,000-1,500