$8,225
American School, 19th Century Portrait of a Woman with Her Needlework, mid-1830s. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, she is attired in a ruffled white bonnet with blue ribbons, a fichu trimmed with lace over her dark dress and several pieces of jewelry as she leans on a marble top table that holds her basket of needlework, her needles, and skein of yarn, sight size 36 x 29 in. Condition: Good, relined, very minor inpaint. Provenance: Family descent to the consignors.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2007-06-03