Pair of 18th Century German Portraits

A pair of mid 18th Century German Portraits of a husband and wife, he shown wearing a red frock coat with his hat tucked under his arm, and his tightly corsetted wife with a necklace of coral, perhaps from Trapani in which, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a notable production of works by experienced masters flourished in. They applied coral to gold and to copper and created precious jewels and valuable objects.

Oil on canvas, inscribed on the back with details of the sitters, presented in contemporary gilt-wood frames