CHARLES CARYL COLEMAN | THE ANTIQUARY

CHARLES CARYL COLEMAN
1840 - 1928
THE ANTIQUARY

signed with monogrammed initials CCC and dated 1865. (lower left)
oil on canvas
21 by 20 inches
(53.3 by 50.8 cm)

This work will be included in Adrienne Baxter Bell’s forthcoming critical study and catalogue of the works of Charles Caryl Coleman.

Condition Report:
The canvas is strip-lined and the edges are trimmed. There is frame abrasion at edges with some associated areas of loss and fine surface cracking throughout. There is a thin, 5-inch vertical patch on the reverse extending from center bottom edge. Under UV: the work retains an uneven varnish. There is inpainting to frame abrasion, a thin 2-inch vertical line near the lower left edge and a few other scattered pindots.

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Provenance:
The artist

Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, New York, 1866 (acquired from the above)

Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1905

Private collection, 1961 (acquired from the above)

By descent to the present owner