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Description:
Portrait of Abigail Seward, American School, c. 1840, the sitter wears a lace shawl, seated on a classical sofa, oil on canvas, in gilt-gesso frame, (relined),30 x 25 in.
Provenance: Seward Estate, Pomfret, Vermont, to the estate of Paul Oppenheimer, former Chairman of the New England Antiquarian Society.
Note: The sitter is probably the mother of William H. Seward, Secretary of State in the Lincoln Administration.
Estimate $300-500
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