American School, Mid-19th Century Pair of Portraits of a Boy in a Blue Jacket and a Boy in a Gray Suit

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American School, Mid-19th Century

Pair of Portraits of a Boy in a Blue Jacket and a Boy in a Gray Suit
Unsigned.
Watercolor on paper, 4 1/2 x 3 3/8 in., each in an ebonized oval frame.
Condition: Toned; boy in blue has small areas of surface loss in the background and pants.

Provenance: Ellen Neily, Essex, Massachusetts, April 12, 1985.
The Arthur & Sybil Kern Collection of American Folk Art
Estimate $1,500-2,500


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