American School, Portrait of a Lady, Oil Painting, Late 18th Century

Item Details

Artist unknown, American School
Untitled (Portrait), late 18th century
Oil painting on canvas
Unsigned

An late 18th century American School portrait oil painting. This painting depicts a naive portrait of a young girl wearing period clothing. The subject has petite hands, broad shoulders, hair rolled neatly into sausage curls, and a patient demeanor against a shadowy blueish-black backdrop. Attached to the verso is a handwritten card attributing the sitter as Priscilla Cartwright, grand daughter of General William Floyd (American, 1734 – 1821), a soldier and politician from New York and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.

Provenance
Acquired from Valdemar F. Jacobsen, Huntington, NY, December 24, 1964.

Condition

- to fair; inpainting present to lower left and patch with inpainting to lower center; craquelure to painting; warping to canvas; accretions, surface abrasions, and chips to edges of frame; gap to top left corner of frame; toning and accretions to verso of canvas

Dimensions

- measures frame; visible image measures 28.25" W x 35.5" H

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Item #

18DCC584-154