PERIOD PRESIDENTIAL PORTRAIT VAN BUREN 1838

PERIOD PRESIDENTIAL PORTRAIT VAN BUREN 1838. Comprising a waist up pastel on canvas portrait of President Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) wearing a black jacket, black necktie and upturned collar and with his characteristic sideburns and upward combed hair. Clearly signed and dated lower right John Langendoerffer fect. 1838. 26 inches x 22 inches. The offered lot is nearly identical to another pastel on canvas portrait of President Van Buren also by Langendoerffer, of almost identical size, and also dated 1838, housed in the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, object number NPG79.218. Lot is further accompanied by a circa 1825 pastel portrait of a young woman in blue dress, sausage curls and basketweave bun, apparently unsigned (21.5 inches x 17.5 inches).

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