Ammi Phillips (New York/Connecticut, 1788-1865) Portrait of a Gentleman with His Hand on a Book Unsigned, c. 1815. Oil on canvas, 32 1/2 x 28 in., in a later red and black paint-decorated frame. Condition: Relined, evidence of inpainting. Provenance: Sotheby's Sale 8238, Lot 34; the Collection of Enid and Alexander Fisher, Roxbury, Connecticut.