Live Auction 2533Important American Furniture and Folk Art
AMERICAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY
Lot 189

AMERICAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY

A Pair of Portrait Miniatures of a Sea Captain and His Wife

Closed20 January 2012

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USD 16,250

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AMERICAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY
A Pair of Portrait Miniatures of a Sea Captain and His Wife
watercolor on paper
5½ x 4 in. each (2)

Howard and Catherine Feldman, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Sold, Sotheby's, New York, 23 June 1988, lot 155
Bertram K. Little and Nina Fletcher Little, Brookline, Massachusetts
Sold, Sotheby's, New York, 21-22 October 1994, lot 927

Specialist note

These portraits are by the same hand as a portrait of Emma Clark in the collection of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center in Williamsburg, Virginia and is illustrated in Beatrix T. Rumford, American Folk Portraits, Paintings and Drawings from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center (Boston, 1981), p. 250, fig. 241.