SB-419 · Pictures

Portrait of a woman in blue silk

c. 1835 · American

$192,000

One of one. Price is firm unless Sally says otherwise in person.

She sits in a blue silk dress with a lace collar, painted by a competent American hand of the 1830s. The family that owned it knew her first name and not the painter’s. We sell it that way.

Materials

Oil on canvas, period gilt frame

Size

Canvas 30 × 25 in

Condition

The paint is stable. A small old repair in the lower left background is visible in raking light and is noted. No signature has been found, and none will be added.