John Ritto Penniman (1782-1841)

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

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Description

John Ritto Penniman
Profile Bust Portrait of Isiah Lane
watercolor, pen, and ink on paper
8 3/4 in. by 6 3/4 in.

Initialled I.L. Aet 31, by JRP, July 16th 1835.

Bears Nina Fletcher Little's jelly label on the back.

Provenance

The Collection of Edgar William Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, sale 3981, lot 571, January 29, 1977;

Childs Gallery, Boston;

The Bertram K. Little and Nina Fletcher Little Collection, a sale at Sotheby's, sale 6612, lot 1001, October 22, 1994.

Exhibited

Worcester, Massachusetts, The Worcester Art Museum, "Exhibition of John Ritto Penniman," 1982, number 30.82.

Literature

Carol Damon Andrews, "John Ritto Penniman (1782-1841), An Ingenious New England Artist." Antiques (July 1981), p. 147-170, fig. 15.

Condition

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Catalogue Note

The subject of this painting, Isiah Lane, was a teamster and was listed rear 773 Washington Street, Boston, in the Directory of 1835.