SAMUEL WALDO AND WILLIAM JEWETT | PORTRAIT OF STEPHEN ALLEN

SAMUEL WALDO AND WILLIAM JEWETT
1783 – 1861 and 1792 – 1874
PORTRAIT OF STEPHEN ALLEN

inscribed Stephen Allen/New York (lower right)
oil on panel
33 by 25 ½ inches
(83.8 by 64.8 cm)

Condition Report:
There is frame abrasion at edges and there are some scattered surface accretions. Under UV: the work retains an uneven varnish. There are scattered pindots of inpainting through, to the man's collar and cravat and a dot in the book.

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Provenance:
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1974

First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1975 (acquired from the above)

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2004