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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 1556751, member: 56&quot;]First impression is maybe early 19th C.&nbsp; The people who know fashion might have a better idea.</p><p><br /></p><p>This area looks fragile to me - maybe a bit of paint loss and some potential flaking:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]229346[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The stretcher is not a proper canvas stretcher.&nbsp; It looks like someone has tacked a piece of canvas to a wooden frame (which is not the same thing as a canvas stretcher).&nbsp; Could be original - I don&#039;t know.</p><p><br /></p><p>My guess is that the painter was an itinerant portraitist, possibly self taught.&nbsp; Some are known, most not.&nbsp; It&#039;s a bit naive.</p><p><br /></p><p>I like the things you are posting, but simply don&#039;t have much information to offer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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