10-28-200110-28-2001
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBolton MA
2134
October 28, 2001 10:00 AMCalender
401

American School

Sell one like this
$748$650
Auction: Sale #2134 - 2134Location: BoltonDate / Time: October 28, 2001 10:00AM

Description:

American School, c. 1840 Memorial Portrait of a Young Girl. Watercolor and pencil on paper depicting a girl with black hair, wearing a yellow striped dress and apron and red shoes holding a rose, with a rose bush nearby, "Martha Platt's hair" inscribed on a note affixed to a small braid of blond hair to right of figure, "Emily Platt" inscribed on a note affixed to left of figures head, 4 5/8 x 6 5/8 in. (sight),framed. Literature: For a similar example, refer to exhibit catalog A Loving Likeness: American Folk Portraits of the Nineteenth Century, from The Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, New Jersey, April 4-May 17 1992, p. 53.
Estimate $300-500

Keywords

American School, Memorial Portrait, figures head , Emily Platt, Martha Platt, Princeton, Bristol-Myers Squibb, The Gallery