Lot 859
  • 859

American School, 19th Century

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • American School, 19th Century
  • Family by a trellised doorway with black and white dogs on a lake: A New England Landscape
  • oil on canvas
  • 25 in. by 34 in..
painted circa 1850.  Retains a portion of the framer's label: W. SCHAUS(?) No. 629 Broadway, New York.

Condition

Surface rubbed; scattered in-paint throughout; cleaned, re-stretched; the frame is period but not original, on original stretchers.
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Catalogue Note

This painting descended in a multi-generational
Vermont family and is thought to depict the family home in Vermont.