August Americana
Description:
Ammi Phillips (New York/Connecticut, 1788-1865)
Portrait of Elizabeth Du Bois Bailey. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, the subject seen waist length wearing a lace cap and dark dress, holding a book and spectacles and seated in a paint-decorated chair, 30 x 24 in., in an antique gilt-gesso frame. Condition: Relined, minor inpainting.
Provenance: The Collection of Enid and Alexander Fisher, Roxbury, Connecticut.
Estimate $600-800
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Keywords
Alexander Fisher, Elizabeth Du Bois BaileyStephen L. Fletcher
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