American School Portrait of a Clergyman, circa 1800

Oil on canvas, unsigned, presented in an ebonized period frame with gilt liner.

Frame dimensions 58 x 48 in.

Purportedly, this is a portrait of John Wesley and was deaccessioned from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Stable craquelure; several patches to verso with associated retouch; minor retouch throughout; faint stretcher marks; some rubbing and loss to frame.