Oil on canvas, signed at upper left, the frame with floral and foliate molded decoration and retaining the original label to the verso.

Rabbet size 24 x 20 in.; DOA 30.25 x 25.75 in.

Grateful patients at St. Luke’s Hospital in New York, NY commissioned the Coale to paint this portrait to hang in the halls of the hospital. However, hospital policy was only to display portraits of doctors, so the portrait remained with the artist.

Some stable cracking to frame; craquelure to painting.

$400 - 800