American School, 19th Century Portrait of a Woman in a Dark Red Dress Holding a Bible

Description:

American School, 19th Century

Portrait of a Woman in a Dark Red Dress Holding a Bible
Unsigned.
Oil on canvas, the woman wears her hair in an elaborate updo, with a pink scarf around her neck, 30 x 25 in., in a period giltwood and gesso frame.
Condition: Relined, retouch.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

retouch to and above the bridge of her nose, in pink scarf, some strengthening in small areas of background at neck and shoulder, and elsewhere; small repaired hole upper left with associated retouch.


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