Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey
A Needlework Sampler, Worked by Sophia Bowen, Warren, Rhode Island, 1804
No reserve
Auction Closed
January 25, 06:34 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
silk threads on linen
17 ¼ in. by 16 ⅛ in.
inscribed along the top Honour and renown will the virtuous crown - Sophia Bowen followed by a cartouche Wrought at/ Warren Sept./ the 13 1804 hanging over an elaborate scene with a lady and gentleman on either side of a grand house, surrounded by flowering trees, birds, and large flowers sprouting out of urns adjacent to marble columns above grassy lawns with grazing animals and a family with parasols in center above the inscription Sophia Bowen/ Born at Warren/ March the 20th 1794 (changed to 1796) over the verse Sophia the fadeing rose/ On which you cast your eyes/ Perhaps may teach you this/ How beauty fades and dies/ In virtue though you see/ a gem of lasting fame/ Because it gives its friend/ Often the richest name/ Well may you choose this pleasant path/ Ever esteem and love the truth/ No ornament like this for youth./ Composed by the Rev. Luther Baker followed by the alphabet and verse Love thou the Lord and he will be. A tender Father unto thee and numbers 1 through 10.
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Bill and Joyce Subjack, Neverbird Antiques, Surry, Virginia.
Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), pp. 182-84, fig. 323.
Sophia Bowen was born to Captain Pardon Bowen (1764-1797) and Mary Thurber (1776-? ) on May 20, 1794. She married Captain Suchet Mauren in the year 1818 but Sophia changed her birthdate from 1794 to 1796 on her sampler, as she was only two months younger than Suchet and sought to make herself two years younger by changing the date. They had six children and she died in 1847 at the age of 52.
Suchet Mauren was born April 3, 1794, named after his uncle Suchet, who died when he and his father, Joseph Carlo Mauren were kidnapped by a British warship in the Mediterranean in 1760. Suchet came from a family of wealthy ship captains headed by his father Joseph Carlo Mauren (1748- 1814), who was born in Nice, Italy, and came to America in 1768, lived with Joshua Bicknell of Barrington, Rhode Island, and married his daughter, Olive, in 1772, inheriting land for a house from his father-inlaw. He served outstandingly in the Navy and had a fleet of ship and ten male heirs, Suchet being the youngest. After Sophia's death, Suchet married Fannie W. Perkins and was a sea captain until 1851 and then President of the Atlantic Insurance Co. of Providence. He died June 25, 1884.
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