$1,845
Anglo/American School, 19th Century Portrait of a Boy and His Sister. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, showing the boy in blue shirt standing with his arm around his younger sister in white seated on a mahogany stool, an urn at lower right inscribed "Sacred to the Memory of John G. and Mary W. Bennett, who departed this life March 5 1848," above pious verses, with red drapery behind the figures, and landscape with colorful sky beyond, 46 1/2 x 39 in., in a molded brown-painted frame. Condition: Relined, two repaired tears with retouch.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-03-01