American Folk Art Portrait of a Seated Woman with Spectacles

Oil on canvas, circa 1850, unsigned, with "W. A. Wisong [William A. Wysong], Baltimore" and "Goupil & Co., NY" stamp to verso, in painted wooden frame.

Frame dimensions 41 x 33.5 in.

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

Craquelure; some slack to canvas; scattered flaking; surface grime.