Attributed to John Smibert (1688 - 1751)

Sotheby's, New York, Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Folk Paintings, October 25, 1992, sale 6350, lot 201;
Alan Miller, Quakertown, Pennsylvania. 

George Parker, “Merchants and Planters: American Portraits of the Colonial Period and the Early Republic,” Wisconsin Academy Review: A Journal of Wisconsin Culture, vol. 43, no. 4, Fall 1997, p. 23, illustrated. 

The canvas is lined and there is frame abrasion at edges. There is craquelure throughout, most visible in the lighter tones. There is a 1 ½ inch scratch in the figure's skirt at lower right, and a few small chips of paint loss at far lower right. Under UV: there is inpainting to frame abrasion at edges, and some scattered spots of inpainting in small areas of the background and the edges of her dress. There are pindots of inpainting in the figure's face, primarily scattered on her nose. There is inpainting to two 1-inch repairs in her right wrist and left breast. There are some thin lines of inpainting at the bust line of her dress.
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