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Lot 85
Continental Portrait of an Unidentified 18th Century General Officer
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
After 1750, possibly Prussian or Austrian, oil on canvas, unsigned, the subject wearing a blue coat with red waistcoat, both garments heavily decorated with lace trim; a Maltese cross hangs from a red rosette on the subject's left breast; on wooden stretcher inserted into a modern carved gilt and gesso frame

Sight size 37 x 27 in.; Frame dimensions 45-1/4 x 35 in.

From the Personal Collection of Mr. William Ivey Long, Seaboard, North Carolina and New York, New York

Chipping with some paint losses revealing canvas.