$3,600
Roswell Tenny Smith (New Hampshire, 1825-1901) Six Portraits of Three Generations of the Hutchinson/Loveland Families of Norwich, Vermont. One portrait signed "R.S." u.l., all but one of the subjects are identified with their ages and 1846 date in inscriptions, likely in the artist's hand, on the back of the canvases. Oil on canvas, painted by Roswell T. Smith, an itinerant painter of Hanover, New Hampshire, depicting Jerome Hutchinson (1763-1848), his wife Content Smith Hutchinson (1764-1858), their two daughters Fanny Hutchinson (1788-1858) and Sarah Hutchinson Loveland (1793-1877), Sarah's husband William Loveland (1784-1862), and Sarah and William's son Joseph Talcott Loveland (1818-1889), five measuring approx. 28 x 24, one 27 x 22 in., the portraits of Jerome and Content in molded walnut frames, the others unframed. Condition: All with varying degrees of retouch and craquelure. Note: According to A History of Norwich Vermont , M.E. Goddard and Henry V. Partridge, Dartmouth Press, 1901, Jerome Hutchinson was born in Ashford, Connecticut, in 1863 (notably, his father John Hutchinson died at Valley Forge). His family moved to the Norwich area of Vermont in 1765. He married Content Smith, and they had six children. One of his daughters, Fanny (b. 1788) married William Loveland, who succeeded in farming his father's (Joseph Loveland) homestead and was involved in town and state legislature. Their oldest son, Joseph Talcott, also followed in agricultural pursuits a Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-08-05
