American School, Probably Southern United States, c. 1830-40, Portrait Miniature of a Boy in a Blue Dress Holding a Sprig of Cotton, Un

Description:

American School, Probably Southern United States, c. 1830-40

Portrait Miniature of a Boy in a Blue Dress Holding a Sprig of Cotton
Unsigned.
Oil on ivory, 2 1/2 x 2 in., in an oval gilt-metal frame with lock of hair on reverse.
Condition: Full-length vertical crack along left side of figure through ear.
Estimate $800-1,200

full length hairline to left of subject, vertically through ear.


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