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Portrait of John Winslow, half-length facing right; subject is wearing wig and red coat. Spandrels in lower canvas only; narrow moulded wood frame painted gold. Paper is pasted directly to wooden frame covered by a piece of coarse linen tacked to back.
portraits
oil paint (paint)
paper (fiber product)
Picture
Portrait
Portrait
in pencil on linen lower left ""Gen John Winslow Louisburg 1745""; upper right of frame ""Geo O Barrell""?
Winslow, John
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Possibly Badger, Joseph, 1708-1765 (Maker)
27 x 22 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.245
Probably
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