Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2608MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: August 12, 2012 10:00AM
Description:
Captain James Keating (Massachusetts, Early 20th Century)
Portrait of a Schooner in Calm Waters. "By James Keating 133 ---- St. Reading, Mass." faintly inscribed in pencil on verso. Carved wood and oil on panel, 7 x 9 in., in original molded wood frame. Condition: Small loss to wood on bowsprit, hairline crack to panel on left.
Provenance: Peter Carswell Antiques, Strafford, New Hampshire; from a home in Reading, Massachusetts.
Estimate $400-600