THE WORLD OF SAMUEL MEEKER, MERCHANT OF PHILADELPHIA, AND GILBERT STUART, AMERICAN PORTRAIT ARTIST

Friday, February 13, 2009

The frame is original, and typical for this time period.



The original frame is exemplary of a late 18th century gold leaf portrait frame with “a triple reeded top molding with cross straps occurring at 12” intervals, a plain deep cove, a bead and flat liner” .
Description in quotes is from R. Reynolds in a report on the frame of the G.S. Lansdowne portrait on file 1985; I use it because I couldn't describe this any better in my own words!

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