SOUTHERN SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY) FOLK ART PORTRAIT OF A MAN, oil on canvas, stylized three-quarter length depiction of figure seated at a table with an open book, holding possibly a red clover in his left hand, no signature located. Housed in possibly original paint-decorated pine frame. Reserve. Possibly Virginia. Circa 1840. 30 1/4" x 27 1/4" sight, 37" x 34".
Published: Rubin -
Southern Folk Art, p.44 (right).
Provenance: From an Albemarle Co., VA collection.
1740 House Antiques, Charlottesville, VA, 4/29/1986.
Ex-collection of J. Roderick "Roddy" Moore, Ferrum, VA.
Discovered in Boyce, VA.
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Condition
Good overall visual condition, lined with possible minor inpainting, minor crease line in canvas. Frame good overall with scattered house paint splatter.