$748
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.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2001-10-28