$2,500
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 Items may have wear and tear, imperfections, or the effects of aging. Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Skinner shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2020-03-12
