Continental School (19th century), Miniature Portrait of an Erudite Gentleman

Circa 1840s, watercolor on ivory, unsigned, the sitter posted astutely in library holding a text, attired in an aubergine coat with high white collar, with Dutch style sleeves, presented behind glass in a later ornate gilt frame.

Sight size 4 x 2 3/4 in.; frame dimensions 11 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 3 in.

From a Private Collection, Washington, D.C.

Miniature appears in good condition; later obscuring varnish; later matting and frame.

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