The Houston Auction Company sells a 19th century British School portrait of a young girl, estimated at $3,000 to $5,000. UPDATE: not sold.
UPDATE 2: up for sale again, same estimate, end date 27 September 2015.
It is a nice (though too sentimental) painting, but it doesn't look British to me, more American, and I wonder if it is the work of Charles Christian Nahl, born in Germany in 1818 but mainly active in California. Sentimental portraits of girls (often with dogs) were one of his typical subjects, and the style is very similar. Of course there were others active in the same genre, but I can't help but wondering if it is a work by him. If so, it should be worth double the high estimate.
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