Bidspirit auction | PORTRAIT OF MATTHEW ELLISON

PORTRAIT OF MATTHEW ELLISON - Possibly by William Sidney Mount (1807-1868), oil on board half-length portrait of a gentleman with dark hair and beard, wearing a dark coat with a fur collar and a gold stick pin in his cravat. Naive portrait on the reverse. In a gilt cove molded frame. Image: 25.5”h. 19.5”w. Framed: 33”h. 26.5”w. Purchased by the late Russell Quandt (fomer paintings conservator at the Lyman Allen Museum) before 1951. It sustained damage in a 2001 flood and was conserved at the Winterthur Museum. The conservator suggested Mount as a possible artist. The sitter is identified on the back next to the portrait sketch Condition: Good; professionally conserved, cupping to the board