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Lot 408

Oil on canvas portrait of Sir Francis Bernard

Estimate: $3,000 - $6,000
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Oil on canvas portrait of Sir Francis Bernard (1712-1779), Bernard served as the governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts and was the architect of Harvard Hall at Harvard University, 50" x 40". Purchased by the Robert C. Vose Galleries, Boston, July 2, 1930. Exhibited at Wadsworth Athenaeum, Newark Museum. Provenance: by decent in the family; Vose Galleries; A Delaware collector.

Condition

Period frame, old relining, minor touch up including to craquelure in face and hand.

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