AMERICAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY | Portrait of Two Children

The canvas is lined, the edges are covered with tape, and there is frame abrasion at the extreme edges. There appear to be a few scattered dots of possible surface accretion in the sky in the upper left and in the lower left foreground. There appear to be scattered fine surface cracking in the figure on the right and the works appears to be dirty. Under UV: there is inpainting to address frame abrasion along edges, scattered dots in the children, an area of inpainting between the child's feet at left, and scattered dots in the background.
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