Extraordinary Find: 1896 Frederic Remington Portrait
Clip: Season 23 Episode 24 | 4m 19sVideo has Closed Captions
Colleene Fesko remembers her favorite Frederic Remington, from Birmingham in 2014.
At ROADSHOW’s 2014 Birmingham, Alabama, event, appraiser Colleene Fesko discovered a family treasure with some very personal provenance. It was a portrait of the guest’s great-grandfather, a cavalry officer, painted by the renowned 19th-century American artist Frederic Remington. Five years later, ROADSHOW catches up with Fesko to learn what’s happened to the painting since she first appraised it.
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Extraordinary Find: 1896 Frederic Remington Portrait
Clip: Season 23 Episode 24 | 4m 19sVideo has Closed Captions
At ROADSHOW’s 2014 Birmingham, Alabama, event, appraiser Colleene Fesko discovered a family treasure with some very personal provenance. It was a portrait of the guest’s great-grandfather, a cavalry officer, painted by the renowned 19th-century American artist Frederic Remington. Five years later, ROADSHOW catches up with Fesko to learn what’s happened to the painting since she first appraised it.
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