Important Americana: Furniture and Folk Art
Important Americana: Furniture and Folk Art
Property from the Estate of Margaret P. Gregory
James Sanford Ellsworth
Pair of Miniature Portraits: Dark-Haired Gentleman and a Lady wearing a White Lace Cap
Lot Closed
January 21, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of Margaret P. Gregory
James Sanford Ellsworth
1802 - 1874
Pair of Miniature Portraits: Dark-Haired Gentleman and a Lady wearing a White Lace Cap
Watercolor on paper
New England
circa 1840
Height 3 1/4 in. by Width 2 3/4 in.
each signed J.S. Ellsworth Painter, each in their apparent original carved giltwood frames
Florene Maine, Fairfield, Connecticut, 1946;
Sotheby's New York, The Bertram K. Little and Nina Fletcher Little Collection, January 29, 1994, sale 6526, lot 384.
Sotheby's New York, The Bertram K. Little and Nina Fletcher Little Collection, January 29, 1994, sale 6526, lot 384.
Nina Fletcher Little, Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts, (New York, E.P. Dutton, Inc., 1984), p.126, fig. 165;
Lucy B. Mitchell, “James Sanford Ellsworth, American Miniature Painter,” Art in America, Vol. 41, No.4, (Autumn 1953), p. 150-184. ref. p. 177.
Lucy B. Mitchell, “James Sanford Ellsworth, American Miniature Painter,” Art in America, Vol. 41, No.4, (Autumn 1953), p. 150-184. ref. p. 177.
A pair of Ellsworth portraits of Mr. Ezra Williams and Sarah and Mrs. Ann Troy Miller, now in the Charles P. Russell Collection, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield Massachusetts, are closely related to the present examples and may, in fact, be the same sitters. For comparison see Lucy B. Mitchell, The Paintings of James Sanford Ellsworth, Itinerant Folk Artist 1802-1873: Catalog of an Exhibition Presented by the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, p.33, figs 46, 47, and Frederick Fairchild Sherman, James Stanford Ellsworth, New York, 1926.