Lot 833
  • 833

Ralph Earl (1751 - 1801)

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Ralph Earl
  • Portrait of Two Brothers
  • oil on canvas
  • 50 by 39  3/4  in.

Provenance

Peter Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut.

Literature

Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, "Ralph Earl: Artist-Entrepreneur" (Ph. D dissertation, Boston University, 1988, UMI reprint 1989), I pp. 68, 332, II, fig. 31.

Condition

Cleaned, relined, and re-stretched. Some scratches in older boy's face; a "spider-web" of fine in-painting of craquelure in small boy's face. There seem to be some areas of in-paint in background, but hard to read through heavy varnish.
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