American School, 19th Century Portrait of a Girl Wearing a Red Dress and Holding a Small Bouquet of Flowers

Description:

American School, 19th Century

Portrait of a Girl Wearing a Red Dress and Holding a Small Bouquet of Flowers, c. 1835. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in., in a period molded wood frame with gilt liner. Condition: Scattered paint losses, craquelure, small nail puncture l.l., surface grime.

Provenance: This portrait is possibly of a child with the last name of Blaisdell, and was reportedly painted in Winchester, Massachusetts, by a wheelwright who was repairing a wagon at the family farm.
Estimate $500-700

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