$4,740
Prior/Hamlin School, 19th Century Portrait of a Young Woman Wearing a Beaded Jet Necklace and a Black Dress. Unsigned. Oil on artist board, 13 1/2 x 9 1/4 in., in a period molded and painted frame. Condition: Good, stable craquelure, very minor retouch, varnish yellowed and deteriorated. Sparse specks of retouch to background, area by ear, earring, hair background. She wears her hair in a bun with braids to sides, and wears a gold drop earring, black dress, with a white collar, jet bead necklace.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-08-14