Property From the Collection of Raymond and Susan Egan

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Lot 6
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*, Aaron Dean Fletcher

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Description

  • Aaron Dean Fletcher
  • Portrait of a Young Boy Holding a Pocket Watch
  • oil on canvas
  • framed 29 by 26 in. 73.57 by 66 cm.
painted circa 1830; in a period frame.

Provenance

Robert W. Skinner Galleries, Bolton, Massachusetts, February 2000

Catalogue Note

Aaron Dean Fletcher was born in Springfield, Vermont. He was a self-taught artist, who began his career in the Springfield area, from about 1835 to 1839, by painting neighbors and friends. By 1840 he had moved to Keeseville, New York; around 1856, like many itinerant artists of the time, Fletcher traveled west to Indiana. He returned after a year to New York, where he continued to earn a meager living as an artist of naive portraits, and an occasional landscape. He died in Keeseville in 1902.