Attributed to John Wollaston (British, active 1742-1775) Boy in a Red Waistcoat and Holding a White Cockatoo.

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Attributed to John Wollaston (British, active 1742-1775)

Boy in a Red Waistcoat and Holding a White Cockatoo. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 23 3/4 x 19 in., in a 20th century gilt carved wood frame. Condition: Relined, craquelure.

Note: John Wollaston came to New York from England in 1749, one of several artists introducing the American colonies to English rococo portraiture. He lived and worked in several mid-Atlantic cities, Southern cities, and on plantations. He returned to England in the spring of 1767.
Estimate $8,000-12,000

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