ATTRIBUTED TO MRS. MOSES B. RUSSELL (CLARISSA PETERS) | MINIATURE PORTRAIT OF A BOY IN A GREEN PLAID TUNIC AND TROUSERS WAVING HIS HAT, POSSIBLY WILLIAM CROWNINSHIELD ENDICOTT OF SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS

Descended in the Endicott family, Boston, Massachusetts;

Marguerite Riordan, Stonington, Connecticut.

William C. Endicott (1826-1900), a member of one of the first Boston families, descendant of John Endicott, the first Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1628, was a prominent Boston attorney and judge, who also served as Secretary of War under Grover Cleveland. William would have been ten years-old at the time Clarissa Peters had first established herself in the Boston/Salem area in 1836, making this portrait miniature an early example of the artist's work.