Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2297Location: BostonDate / Time: November 06, 2005 11:00AM
Description:
American School, 19th Century
Portrait of Joseph Greene. Unsigned. Indistinct ink inscriptions on the reverse reads, "Your P--- Dear Friend Joseph Greene age Died 27th ---- 1803..." Watercolor on paper, 4 3/4 x 3 in., in a period molded giltwood frame.
Note: Oral history relates that the gentleman portrayed was possibly the servant of sugar plantation owners Fairre-Macfie of Barbados.
Estimate $400-600