Sold for:
$42,000
$42,000
Ammi Phillips (American, 1788-1865) Pair of Portraits of a Young Man and Woman. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 in., in later matching molded, gilded, and painted frames. Condition: The perimeter of the canvases have been lined and applied to later stretchers, minor retouch. Note: The subjects in this pair of portraits may have resided in the Poughkeepsie, New York, area. In one of the portraits, the man is holding an issue of the Eagle , which was one of the newspapers published in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, at the time when Ammi Phillips was painting portraits in that area, c. 1836.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-03-03
