Attributed to William Matthew Prior (American, 1806-1873) Portrait of Ruth Nickerson.

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Attributed to William Matthew Prior (American, 1806-1873)

Portrait of Ruth Nickerson. Unsigned. Oil on artist board, picturing the woman seated before red tasseled drapery, and holding a red book, 14 1/8 x 10 in., in a mahogany veneered frame. Condition: Minor pigment losses.

Note: A typewritten note accompanying the painting reads: "I think that this Primitive is a painting of my great-grandmother who was married about 1838 and lived in Pawtucket , R.I. Ruth Aurilla Squier Nickerson wife of William Nickerson was born in 1822 and died in 1843, January 16, at the age of 21 years. She was the mother of Mrs. Louisa Aurilla Nickerson Curtis (Mrs. Stephen D. Curtis) who was my grandmother. Bertha L. Wallace."

A genealogical search records that headstones at the "Westford Cemetery" at Ashford, Connecticut, bear the names of Aurilla Squier Nickerson, William A Nickerson, and Louisa Aurilla Nickerson Curtis.
Estimate $10,000-15,000

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