Antique ca 1870 Magnificent Oil On Canvas Portrait MR Fisher Best Original Frame
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Auctiva's FREE Scrolling Gallery will enhance your listings.Antique 1870 Era Oil on Canvas Portrait Signed Fisher in Original Veneer Frame. It is signed lower right - looks like M R Fisher. It is noted on the back as from Fitchburg & Ashburnham Mass. and provenance of Peter Timms who was a previous director of the Fitchburg Art Museum. The quality is remarkable - exceptional classic 19th century portrait is virtually certain an important piece of art - museum quality. The frame appears to be a burled walnut with gold leaf inner edge. The old classic wood veneer frame measures 20 1"/8 x 24 "3/4; the art is about 14" x 19". Fine clean solid complete condition, possibly has been restored at some recent time. Very much in the style and quality of John Singer Sargent, Peter Timms was a well known expert on Sargent art. It is guaranteed a genuine 120 years old (at least) painting of exceptional quality.Boston Globe October 20, 2012:Peter Timms was born in Philadelphia and attended Brown University. In 1964, he was commissioned in the Marine Corps and left as a captain in 1967, having served as a forward observer in Vietnam on more than 100 combat patrols. It was that military experience, in part, that influenced so much of Timms's leadership style at the Fitchburg Art Museum.The first time Peter Timms saw the Fitchburg Art Museum, he was
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