$8,225
American School, New England, Mid-19th Century Portrait of Phoebe Frances Ricker (1846-1859) , c. 1848. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, depicting a very young child wearing a dotted white dress trimmed with matching lace, holding in her left hand the red tassel from the matching velvet drapery above her and extending her right arm to rest her hand on her doll dressed in light blue and lying on the stool covered in red and green patterned fabric edged in red fringe, all on a red and green decorated ingrain carpet, 29 x 24 in., with an old giltwood frame. Condition: Very good, minor abrasion and craquelure, cleaned. Provenance: This portrait of Phoebe Frances Ricker descended in the family to the consignor. Phoebe's father was J. C. Ricker (1819-1888), a founder of the Amoskeg Fire Department No. 1 on July 6, 1859, in Manchester, New Hampshire. He was married to Phoebe Susan Parson (1819-1909) in 1842. They built a house and barn at 66 Prospect St., Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1862. His considerable real estate holdings were in the center of Manchester. Phoebe, an only child, died at the age of thirteen years and ten months. Her headstone still stands in Valley Cemetery, Manchester, New Hampshire.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2005-08-14
