Auction: American & European Works of Art - 2493Location: BostonDate / Time: January 29, 2010 12:00PM
Description:
John Watson Gordon (Scottish, 1788-1864)
Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Mack, also known as Mrs. Thomas Henderson of Press Castle, Edinburgh
Signed or inscribed "Mrs. Thomas Henderson/ Painted by Watson Gordon Edinburgh"
and identified on a label on the reverse.
Oil on canvas, 50 1/4 x 40 1/4 in. (127.6 x 102.2 cm),in a period frame.
Condition: Retouch, surface grime, canvas deformations, craquelure.
Estimate $5,000-7,000
Very minor retouch, probably to fill craquelure, in bonnet, neck and torso of the figure. Craquelure throughout. Varnish inconsistencies. The stretcher does not have a cross bar to stabilize it.