Sold for:
$1,107
$1,107
Rufus Porter (Connecticut/Massachusetts, 1792-1884) Profile Portrait of a Sylvester Norton, of Suffield, Connecticut Unsigned. Watercolor on paper, the subject bust-length, with red-striped waistcoat, 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. (sight), in an eglomise and gilt mat and period molded giltwood frame. Condition: Toning and minor staining to paper, not examined out of frame. Note: The reverse bears the label of Burr and Smith, "Looking-glass Manufacturers" from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Inscribed in pen, also on the reverse, is a note indicating that the subject of this miniature was born in 1789, and died at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1825.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-08-14
