Live Auction 18947In Praise of America: Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Prints and Broadsides
A SILK AND WATERCOLOR-ON-SILK GEORGE WASHINGTON MEMORIAL NEEDLEWORK MOURNING PICTURE
Lot 187 PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTOR

A SILK AND WATERCOLOR-ON-SILK GEORGE WASHINGTON MEMORIAL NEEDLEWORK MOURNING PICTURE

MISSES PATTENS' SCHOOL, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, CIRCA 1810

Closed22 January 2021

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A SILK AND WATERCOLOR-ON-SILK GEORGE WASHINGTON MEMORIAL NEEDLEWORK MOURNING PICTURE
MISSES PATTENS' SCHOOL, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, CIRCA 1810
incribed SACRED/ to the/ memory of/ Gen. George Washington/ Who departed this life/ Dec. 14th. 1799./ Aet. 68 on tombstone; orginal frame with eglomise
19 ½ x 17 ¼ in. (oval)

Stephen & Carol Huber, Old Saybrook, Connecticut

Specialist note


The present needlework is attributed to the Misses Pattens' school in Hartford, Connecticut. Mourning pictures with neoclassical elements were a popular genre in the school. This work exhibits the school’s signature use of raised and padded metallic embroideries. It features popular elements seen in many examples including a metallic eagle and willow trees with drooping clumps. For further information and similar examples see Betty Ring, Girlhood Emroidery: American Samplers & Pictorial Needlework 1650-1850 (New York, 1993), pp. 202-209.