Ammi Phillips (American, 1788-1865) Pair of Portraits of a Young Man and Woman.

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Ammi Phillips (American, 1788-1865)

Pair of Portraits of a Young Man and Woman. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 in., in later matching molded, gilded, and painted frames. Condition: The perimeter of the canvases have been lined and applied to later stretchers, minor retouch.

Note: The subjects in this pair of portraits may have resided in the Poughkeepsie, New York, area. In one of the portraits, the man is holding an issue of the Eagle, which was one of the newspapers published in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, at the time when Ammi Phillips was painting portraits in that area, c. 1836.
Estimate $30,000-50,000

Man-very minor small spots of retouch-one u.l. one u.c. and a small area to u.r. edge approx. 1 x 2 in.
Woman- very minor retouch, pepper speck size a few on face, clothing and background


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