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Early 19th C. Reverse Painted Portrait

Extremely fine early 19th C. portrait of a young woman reverse painted on glass. Ca. 1815-1850. Wood-pinned lap jointed pine frame in original red paint with a mustard stripe on the inner edge to simulate a gilt liner. Original wooden backboard. Nice bubbly glass and virtually no deterioration in the paint. 7” x 9½” sight size. While many, perhaps most, of the 19th C. reverse-painted portraits are continental, this one is American, probably by the same artist who painted the portrait now in the Museum of American Folk Art, which is attributed to New England. See pages 58-59 in American Folk Art by William Ketchum.

$785