A primitive portrait of a young girl with a flower basket in a landscape. Oil on canvas, signed and dated on verso, 1850, not framed, the canvas size measuring 22-1/4" x 25-1/8". This is a charming example of an American primitive portrait from the middle of the 19th Century, with the characteristic stylization and flattening of form. Especially nice is the fact that the composition includes the entire figure of the child and the pretty depiction of the flower basket, set in front of foliage and an imaginary distant landscape.
1,800/2,500
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