$1,422
Attributed to Emily Eastman (Louden, New Hampshire, 1804- ) Portrait of a Woman in a White Gown with a Blue Floral Belt. Unsigned. Watercolor and ink on paper, 14 x 10 1/2 in., in a period mitered mahogany frame. Condition: Tear u.c., minor toning, foxing, and creases. Note: According to a biography of the artist Emily Eastman by The American Folk Art Museum: "Emily Eastman is known through a group of related watercolors that depict young women in fashionable styles of the early nineteenth century. Highly decorative, each features a woman with her head tilted slightly to the side, her elaborate ringlets framing a classical face. The strong features are sharply delineated, with precise lines forming the curved brows and shape of the nose. The watercolors most likely were based on print sources, but none has been specifically identified to date...Eastman apparently worked through the 1820s, based on the dress and hairstyles depicted in her watercolors. Beyond the fact that she was born in Loudon, New Hampshire, and married Dr. Daniel Baker in 1824, little more is known about her."
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-08-11
