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Oil on wood panel; portrait of Nathaniel Barrell in old age; half length, facing right; subject wearing glasses and brown coat; panel sized with gray paint on verson on which is a chalk (?) sketch or outline of a seated woman. Back of frame has fragments of newspaper.
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Signed on verso, upper left ""J. Coles. Pinx.""
Barrell, Nathaniel, 1732-1831
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Coles, J. (Painter)
30 1/2 x 27 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.278
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