Justus Engelhardt Kuhn (active 1708-1717)

Oil on canvas portrait of a young girl. JEK was a German immigrant who settled and worked in Annapolis, MD. Patronized by powerful families - Carrolls, Diggeses, and Darnalls - this young girl was likely from one of those families, perhaps one of the Carroll children. The Maryland Historical Society owns two identified Kuhn pieces of Darnell children. The sight size of this example is 39" x 29"; 45" x 35 1/2" with frame. Frame is later, circa 1800.

 Price: $80,000.

Stunning oil on canvas portrait of a young girl circa 1730.   Painter is unidentified but the work is in the style of John Smibert  (1688-1751).    The portrait has a New England origin.  Sight size is 48" x 35".  Early, possibly original frame.  Painting has been relined; some minor inpainting.

Price:  $20,000.

Oil on canvas portrait of three sisters holding embroidered handkerchiefs/napkins, painted c. 1850.  Attibuted to Jervis F. Hanks.  Three Humphrey sisters: Alice, Emma and Delia - Townsend, Huron Co., Ohio. Sight size measures 43 1/2" x 35 1/2". Laid on board; trivial amount of inpainting.

Price:  $25,000.

Attractive and boldy colored oil on bed ticking portrait of a young child wearing a deep pink dress and a coral necklace, holding a bowl of fruit.  Attributed to Milton Hopkins, c. 1838.

Price:  $20,000.

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Spectacular O/C landscape of a home in Palmyra, New York.  The Cambier House (built in 1846) is still standing.  Signed and dated:  L.R.Curtiss, 1861.  Sight size of painting is 17 1/2" x 26 1/2.   Original gilt frame.

Price:  $5,500.  SOLD

Pair of extremely folky portraits of a Chittenango, New York couple, circa 1839.

Price:  $35,000

Young child with rattle.  Southern origin, possibly New Orleans, circa 1835-40.  Very clean condition. 

Measures 34 1/2" x 26 1/2".  Modern frame.

Price:  $12,000.   SOLD

O/C 19th century landscape - Morocco, 1862.   Signed by American artist George Tirell  (1829-1877).

Excellent condition, trivial inpainting, original frame.  Sight size 38" x 43".

Price:  $ 6,000.   

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