Portrait of Two Sisters
oil on canvas, housed in a gilt frame
signed and dated '40 lower left
59 x 38 3/4 inches.

Moses Billings was a portrait painter known for his notable portraits of George Washington and John Quincy Adams. Born in Amherst, New Hampshire, he mostly lived and worked in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he died. He also spent some time in Cincinnati, Ohio, during the early 1830s, and in Washington D.C. in the mid-1840s.