AMMI PHILLIPS (1788-1865)

With dark clothing, a heavily shaded face and individualized features, this portrait by Ammi Phillips falls into the artists “realistic period” and was likely painted in Ulster or Orange County, New York circa 1824 (David R. Allaway, My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips (2022), vol. I, p. 240, no. 695; vol. 2, p. 43).