Sold for:
$444
$444
Portrait Miniature of a Young Man, attributed to James H. Gillespie, British, b.1793, unsigned, the reverse indistinctly inscribed "Uncle Peter D--- Boston", watercolor, ink, and graphite, on card 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 in., oval portrait, in a chased gilt-brass pendant frame with small oval aperture on the reverse. Condition: Toning, light moisture halo. Note: Born in England, Gillespie painted portraits in small towns there before moving to Canada in his late thirties. A few years later he began a decade-long itinerancy, painting portraits while traveling down the East Coast of the United States.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-03-06
