(American/California/Massachusetts, 1862-1941). Oil on canvas. Three-quarter portrait of a seated gentleman. Signed and dated 1918 upper left. Sight size: 49″ high x 39″ wide. In the original carved and gilded frame measuring: 58″ high x 48″ wide. Frame was made at the Copley Gallery. Marion Boyd Allen was a pupil of Edmund Tarbell and Frank Weston Benson at the School of The Boston Museum of Fine Arts and exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Provenance: Marion Antiques. Estate of Alfred J. Walker, legendary art dealer and collector. Founder of Walker-Cunningham Fine Art. Good condition consistent with age. Minor wear to frame.
