$2,583
American School, 19th Century Portrait of a Girl Holding Eyeglasses in a Tortoiseshell Case Unsigned. Oil on canvas, the child sits on a footstool and patterned carpet, 27 1/4 x 22 1/4 in., in an ogee-molded giltwood frame. Condition: Relined, alligatored surface with inpainting. Provenance: Mr. and Mrs. William Gunn, Newtonville, Massachusetts; Miss Mary Allis, Fairfield, Connecticut; Stephen Clark, Cooperstown, New York; Property of the Fenimore Art Museum, sold to benefit the Acquisitions Fund. Literature: D'Ambrosio and Emans, Folk Art's Many Faces , 1987; Jones, New Found Folk Art of the Young Republic , 1960. Exhibitions: New Found Folk Art of the Young Republic, Fenimore Art Museum, 1960, Rensselaer County Historical Society, 1967, Schenectady Museum, 1972.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-11-19