Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2558MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: August 14, 2011 10:00AM
Description:
Prior/Hamlin School, 19th Century
Portrait of a Young Woman Wearing a Beaded Jet Necklace and a Black Dress. Unsigned. Oil on artist board, 13 1/2 x 9 1/4 in., in a period molded and painted frame. Condition: Good, stable craquelure, very minor retouch, varnish yellowed and deteriorated.
Estimate $4,000-6,000
Sparse specks of retouch to background, area by ear, earring, hair background.
She wears her hair in a bun with braids to sides, and wears a gold drop earring, black dress, with a white collar, jet bead necklace.