c.1850 antique handsome man male portrait oil painting George C. Baldwin attr.

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Beautiful c.1850 painting of a male subject attributed to George C. Baldwin (1819-1879). Oil on canvas measures 25 x 30 inches. Unframed. Some minor flaking in area of face and background. Minor retouching of paint. Unsigned. "Baldwin" inscribed on stretcher verso. George C. Baldwin was born in Thompson, CT in 1819. Baldwin studied portraiture in Norwich and painted many portraits of prominent men of Connecticut. He was a resident of NYC in 1860 and San Francisco in 1867-68. He died after 1879. Source:Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940" City Directory; Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters & Sculptors; New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America.