$9,840
American School, 19th Century Double Portrait of Mary Elizabeth and Caroline Brackett of Newton, Massachusetts, in Pink Dresses Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 36 x 29 1/4 in., in a giltwood frame. Condition: Relined, very minor inpainting. Provenance: Reportedly painted by an itinerant artist who boarded at the home of Charles and Lucy Gay Brackett on Waverly Ave. in Newton, Massachusetts, for a year. Apparently, there were portraits painted of all nine children and a full-length portrait of the parents.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2017-03-04