$14,950
Attributed to Ammi Phillips (American, 1788-1865) Portrait of a Young Woman Wearing a Bonnet of Riotous Ribbons and an Embroidered Organdy Collar, c. 1835, Kent, Connecticut, or Amenia, Dutchess County, New York, the young woman leans on a book on the table. Oil on canvas, 31 1/2 x 26 1/2 in., original giltwood frame, original stretcher. Condition: Repaired tear, scattered retouch, areas of varnish inconsistency, minor craquelure. Provenance: This portrait descended in the family to the present owners, together with the two succeeding lots. N.B. Ammi Phillips, a highly regarded 19th century folk painter was born in Colebrook, Connecticut. During his so-called Kent period, which lasted from 1829-38 approximately, he painted "forward leaning women in dark dresses with embroidered muslin collars and bonnets against muted backgrounds," according to American Folk Art Painters of Three Centuries, "Ammi Phillips 1788-1865" by Mary Black, New York, 1980, p. 139. This portrait is from that Kent period. In the 1830s, Ammi Phillips lived in Rhinebeck, New York, part of Dutchess County. Literature: This portrait is briefly described, dated, and its probable point of origin mentioned in the publication Revisiting Ammi Phillips: Fifty Years of American Portraiture, by Stacy Hollander, Howard Fertig, and Mary Black, Museum of American Folk Art, 1994, p. 78.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2001-10-28
