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19th C. Portrait of A Boy Holding A Whip

Superb early 19th oil on canvas portrait of a young auburn haired boy holding a coach whip. The painting is unretouched and unrestored, on its original stretchers in a period gilt frame. In the early 19th C. the Pinckney family moved North from Charleston, SC and settled in Boston where they established connections with the Hilton family through marriage. The boy in this painting is said to be a member of that extended family and the ancestor of the man from whom this painting was obtained. A painting probably by the same hand and possibly of a sibling, was sold in New England in 2004. The subject was identified as Maria Augusta Richardson of Attleboro, MA.

$10,800