Important Americana: Furniture and Folk Art
Important Americana: Furniture and Folk Art
Property from the Estate of Margaret P. Gregory
James Sanford Ellsworth
Group of Five Miniature Portraits of the Pomeroy Family
Lot Closed
January 21, 03:06 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from the Estate of Margaret P. Gregory
James Sanford Ellsworth
1802 - 1874
Group of Five Miniature Portraits of the Pomeroy Family
watercolor on paper
New England
1846
Height 3 in. by Width 2 3/4 in.
Comprising of a pair of portraits of Mr. and Mrs. David Pomeroy rendered at half-length, she wearing a black dress with white collar, he a black frock coat and tie, also features individual portraits of two of their daughters and one of their niece, Helen; the first Leeora Caroline Pomeroy, wearing a blue and yellow striped dress and carrying a rose, the next of Helen Pomeroy, the cousin, wearing a blue, purple, and coral striped dress, also carrying a rose, and the last of Mary Pomeroy, wearing a gold and blue striped dress and carrying a rose, all figures poised in profile before a shaded-cloud motif and inscribed on the reverse with their name, birth, and death dates.
two signed Ellsworth Painter, three signed J.S.E. Pt’r-, each in their apparent original wood frame
Sotheby's, New York, Important American Folk Art and Furniture: The Distinguished Collection of the Late Stewart E. Gregory, Wilton, Connecticut, January 27, 1979, sale 4209, lot 33.
David Pomeroy of Southampton, Massachusetts was born on May 25, 1805 and died March 17, 1882. He married Mary Ann Pomeroy on May 19, 1831, and they had four children: David Alonzo, Mary Ann, Leora Caroline, and Deborah Jane.