Possibly Warrenton, Virginia
Oil on velvet
Period, if not original frames
Circa 1840
Larger: 14” x 12.5”
Smaller: 10.5” x 12.5”
From the John C. Palmer collection, purchased privately.
One with a note on the back: “This theorem was purchased at the Fred Wayland sale on 8-17-91 (sale bill enclosed). The son, Fred Wayland, Jr., president of the National Bank of Warrenton stated that the theorem had been in his father’s home as long as he could remember but new nothing of its origins”. John C. Palmer