Lot 113: 19th C. Oil By William Matthew Prior

Estimate: $2,000 – $3,000

Oil on academy board, portrait of a gentleman with blue eyes, black and gray coat, and white cravat, dated “1849” above his right shoulder, in original walnut frame with gilt liner, signed on the back in red paint “1849, Ira Allen, Aged 53, painted W.M.P. (William Mathew Prior, American, 1806-1873), (ex. Dr. Oscar and Lois Hollander collection, Falmouth, MA).