American Furniture & Decorative Arts

Description:

American School, 19th Century

Portrait of a Young Girl Wearing a Red Dress and Holding a Doll, c. 1840. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 32 1/2 x 25 1/2 in., in a period molded painted wood frame. Condition: Three small punctures near left edge, two with old patch repairs, cleaned, frame rub, scattered paint losses across top stretcher area, frame obscures the top of the girl's head.
Estimate $6,000-8,000

Canvas not on original stretcher, three small punctures on left near edge near top, mid. and bottom.

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