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American School oil on canvas portrait of a girl and a small dog before a wooded landscape and stream. The girl wears a white dress with blue bows, a coral necklace, and red shoes while she places her right hand on the back of a chair. Unsigned. Housed in an antique wooden frame. Canvas: 30 in. H x 25 in. W. Sight: 29 3/4 in. H x 24 3/4 in. W. Framed: 35 in. H x 30 in. W. First quarter of 19th century.
PROVENANCE: A Kentucky estate, acquired in a Chattanooga area auction in the 1980s.
CONDITION: Canvas has been lined. Marked, stable craquelure with inpainting throughout plus localized drying cracks or alligatoring to lower left corner. Areas of retouching along right edge, see UV photography. Approximately 1/4 in. W wooden strip affixed to right edge of canvas and painted to extend scene slightly. Frame with losses and scattered abrasions especially to corners plus pinpoint puncture to upper right.
