Prior-Hamblin School 19th century

Full-length rendering of a seated baby girl wearing a red dress with black dots and lace trim and holding a rattle and a small ball; grey-blue eyes and the expression of her mouth suggest that these toys might have represented only a momentary distraction for a bright and mischievous child; seated on a patterned carpet; taupe background and swag curtain with tassels framing the upper section. Stretcher and gilded frame of the period.

Order of the Cincinnati, New Hampshire Chapter of the national historical organization of descendants of officers serving under General Washington during the American Revolution;
Carl W. Stinson Auctions, Reading, Massachusetts, 1989;
Marguerite Riordan, Stonington, Connecticut;
Sotheby's, New York, Distinguished American Furniture and Folk Art: The Collection of Susan and Mark Laracy, January 20, 2007, sale 8280, lot 218;
Marguerite Riordan, Stonington, Connecticut.

With in-painted craquelure throughout forehead, cheek and arms. A repaired tear in skirt and rubbed varnish in background and curtains. In a Lance Mayer and Gay Myers original frame and stretcher. 
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