Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2538BLocation: BostonDate / Time: March 06, 2011 11:00AM
Description:
American School, 19th Century
Portrait of Two Children in a Landscape. Unsigned. Oil on wood panel, c. 1840, 48 x 35 in., in a period gilt-gesso frame. Condition: Minor spots of retouch, panel slightly bowed.
Provenance: Hope Goddard Iselin, Wolver Hollow, New York, the grandmother of the consignor.
Estimate $4,000-6,000
Minor spots of retouch on garments, details on hands, sparsely scattered background spots.