Lot 329
  • 329

Aaron Dean Fletcher (1817-1902)

Estimate
6,000 - 10,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Aaron Dean Fletcher (1817-1902)
  • A Portrait of Lucius R. Barry
  • Inscribed AE6 H6 upper left
  • oil on canvas
Inscribed at top left, AE 6. Retains its original stretchers under new ones.

Provenance

The Barry family, Saxton River, Vermont, 1950.

Literature

Virginia Burdick and Nancy C. Muller, “Aaron Dean Fletcher, portrait painter”. The Magazine Antiques, January 1979, p. 184; for related works

Condition

Face is OK, lots of in-painting in the background. Bow, buttons have been re-inforced with paint. Restored by Stephen Kornhauser, Wadsworth Athenaeum, 1982.
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