AMERICAN SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH CENTURY | Portrait of a Young Boy

There is frame abrasion at the extreme edges. There appears to be a small spot of loss in the boy's red shirt and a pindot of loss at the extreme right edge above center. There appears to be a scratch through the proper right side of the boy's face that extends into the background. There is a crease in the lower right corner and loss to the board in that area. Under UV: there are scattered dots of inpainting in the background, a 1-inch diagonal line adjacent to the boy's right eye, a 1 1/2-inch vertical line in the boy's hair, and a 1-inch horizontal line in the background near the right center edge.
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