75: 19TH CENT AMERICAN SCHOOL PORTRAIT OF MRS. SAMUEL GILES

The American School portrait by an anonymous artist (manner of The Cooper brothers of Nashville, Tennessee - Washington Bogart Cooper and William Browning Cooper) depicts a seated young woman with lace collar beside a window and view of a mountain landscape. The characteristics in the style of Cooper portraits include the shadowing of the eyes, the subtle abstracted suggestion of the chair and the overall technique are characteristics of the Coopers' work.
Canvas measures 30 x 25 with a framed size of 38 x 32.75 inches.
Very good restored condition, professionally relined, a 2-inch circular area of inpainting lower left, scattered minor touch up elsewhere and a network of touch ups in the face as shown in the images.
$500 - $700