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Maxfield, James Emery - 1848 Detroit/Michigan - 1919 Carrinton/North Dakota, "Gypsy Girl", oil/wood, three-quarter portrait of a young gypsy woman with gold jewelry and long, dark brown hair, monochrome, grey/blue background, signed upper right, approx. 24x17.7cm, frame damaged, restored, bumped, approx. 34x28cm. Maxfield was a pupil of T. Rosental in Munich and worked as a genre painter in New York. Literature: Th.-B. 24, 289

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Maxfield, James Emery - 1848 Detroit/Michigan - 1919 Carrinton/North Dakota, "Gypsy Girl", oil/wood, three-quarter portrait of a young gypsy woman with gold jewelry and long, dark brown hair, monochrome, grey/blue background, signed upper right, approx. 24x17.7cm, frame damaged, restored, bumped, approx. 34x28cm. Maxfield was a pupil of T. Rosental in Munich and worked as a genre painter in New York. Literature: Th.-B. 24, 289

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