Description:
American School, Early 19th Century
Pair of Portraits, Husband and Wife
Unsigned, one frame inscribed "Painted in 1822."
Oil on panel, 30 1/4 x 25 1/2 in., in the likely original grain-painted frames.
Condition: Woman with full-length vertical repaired split left of center, minor retouch.
Provenance: Joan R. Brownstein American Folk Paintings.
Exhibitions: Museum of American Folk Art, New York, Collector's Choice, 1969, as part of the Eckley Collection.
Estimate $6,000-8,000
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Joan R. Brownstein
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