If you want to send me a picture I can try to narrow the date through the
costume and hair.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Jessica Baldwin <
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>  I have hit a research wall and any help would be greatly appreciated!****
>
> ** **
>
> I am researching the provenance of an oil painting portrait in our
> Museum’s collection.  I am looking for any leads/sources the wise Listers
> may have.****
>
>       ****
>
> What I do know:****
>
> 1)       Who purchased it: Museum Rep.****
>
> 2)        Where is was purchased from: Merwin Sales Co. auction house****
>
> 3)        When it was purchased from auction house: 1913****
>
> 4)        What the auction house listed it as: "artist unknown" "colonial
> period."  ****
>
>  ****
>
> I am trying to figure out WHO painted it and WHEN (shocking, I know).  I
> have looked at the auction houses sales records, but no consignor
> information was located. ****
>
>  ****
>
> Is anyone familiar with the frequency of American undisciplined
> attribution from the early 1900s or attribution error for portraits from
> the Colonial Period in the early 1900s?  ****
>
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> AND/OR****
>
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> Does anyone have any experience researching sales records of auction
> houses absorbed by Sotheby’s OR researching at the Pennsylvania Academy of
> Fine Arts?  I have exhausted the sources at the NY Hall of Records, NYPL,
> and the Frick. ****
>
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>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!!  Thank you!****
>
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>
> *Jessica Baldwin**
> *Museum Director
> Fraunces Tavern Museum****
>
> 212-425-1778 x3****
>
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