ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY | GROUP OF FAMILY PORTRAITS OF RICHARD AND ANNE WINNIATT AND CHILDREN JOHN AND LOWISA
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January 25, 06:44 PM GMT
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1,500 - 2,500 USD
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ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY
GROUP OF FAMILY PORTRAITS OF RICHARD AND ANNE WINNIATT AND CHILDREN JOHN AND LOWISA
watercolor on paper
circa 1840-1845
Each 9 ¼ by 7 ¼ in.
the verso of each respectively inscribed:
Richard Winniatt / Born Grabvesend, England / Died in Bristol [...] 1840
Ann Winniatt wife of Richard
Lowisa Winniatt / ABOUT 1843/ (married John T. Griffiths of Bristol, England) / Mother of Edith Griffiths who married Charles Walworth Webster of Boston, Mass. 1892
John Winniatt at 1845 [...] Born Gravesend, England / Died Boston, Mass.
Descended in the Winniatt family;
Private collection;
Martin J. Conlon American Antiques, Providence, Rhode Island.
The Winniatt family were likely painted near their hometown of Gravesend, England, given that the father, Richard, died in Bristol, and John and Lowisa would not have emigrated to the United States independently as children. John Winniatt or the daughter of Lowisa, probably brought these portraits to Boston as family heirlooms in the second half of the 19th century.