Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2538BLocation: BostonDate / Time: March 06, 2011 11:00AM
Description:
German/American School, 18th Century
Pair of Portraits of a Husband and Wife. Unsigned, both with paper label fragments with indistinct Germanic names and inscriptions. Oil on oval copper panels, 7 x 5 1/2 in., housed in oval molded giltwood frames. Condition: Surface grime.
Provenance: Reportedly by family descent in the Dearborn family of New York City and New Orleans.
Estimate $2,500-3,500