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Lot 403
Pair of Antebellum Portraits of a Husband and Wife
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Oil on canvas laid on board, unsigned, circa 1860, presented in period appropriate gilt frames.

DOA 38 x 32 in.

By descent through the Carver family

Oral family history identifies the sitters as Conrad Gansevoort Carver and Terresa Quinby Carver. Conrad was born in 1800 in Pittsford, NY, and died 1874 in Sharon, PA. Terresa was born in 1808 in Howland, OH and died 1900 in Sharon, PA.

Stable craquelure; scattered re-touch visible under UV light.

$500 - 1,000