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AMERICAN SCHOOL (MID-19TH CENTURY)
Lot 367 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MIMI ADLER

AMERICAN SCHOOL (MID-19TH CENTURY)

PORTRAIT OF MARIA B. BIRD (B. 1824) AND CHILD

Closed21 January 2022

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USD 15,000–30,000

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AMERICAN SCHOOL (MID-19TH CENTURY)
PORTRAIT OF MARIA B. BIRD (B. 1824) AND CHILD
reverse with paper labels, the first hand-inscribed in ink, Maria B. Bird/ painted in February 1857/ Aged 33 years; the second printed Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Painted in 1857
oil on canvas
41 x 33 in.

The Bird Family, Virginia
Walter P. Chrysler, New York
Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York

Specialist note

The sitters in this portrait are most likely Maria, the first wife of William Beverley Bird (1818-1892) of "Cypress Hall" in King and Queen County, Virginia and their daughter, Martha Fauntleroy (Bird) Taylor (1857-1935). Her parentage unknown, Maria's maiden name may have been Abrams. She married Bird in 1843 and died around the time this portrait was painted.