$2,880
American School, 19th Century Portrait Miniature of a Young Child of a Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, Sea Captain. Unsigned. Watercolor on ivory, 2 1/8 x 1 3/4 in., in an oval gold brooch case. Condition: Note: Family lore reports the child came from a seafaring family, the Freemans, who came to the Massachusetts coastal area c. 1795, her grandfather is Captain Seth Freeman, her father, Nathaniel Freeman, who was first mate aboard a whale ship out of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and was lost at sea in the Indian Ocean.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-10-27