JOHN FERGUSON WEIR AMERICAN, 1841-1926
THE BEARER OF DISPATCHES - AN INCIDENT OF THE CIVIL WAR
Oil on canvas: 29 1/2 x 24 1/2 in. (sight)
Civil War soldier with blacksmith, lower right signed and dated 'J.F. Weir, 1868'; on verso Goupil stamp "Goupil's. 772 Broadway", framed Literature: "John Ferguson Weir - The Labor of Art," Betsy Fahlman, pg. 92, according to Fahlman this work of 1868 has todate been "unlocated."