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Lot 419
An Antique American Folk Art Portrait of a Young Boy
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Oil on canvas on Masonite, unsigned, circa 1850, presented in a period frame with mahogany veneer.

SS 29.5 x 24.5 in.; DOA 36.5 x 31.5 in.

From the Collection of a Gentleman, Florida

A typed label affixed to the verso fo the frame identifies the sitter as Charles Dummett, born in 1844 to a prominent landowner and citrus farmer. The young boy died in 1860 and is buried in New Smyrna, Florida.

$800 - 1,200