American (Illinois), ca 1850s. Oil on thin board, a portrait of a woman painted by an unidentified itinerant artist working in Illinois, the subject holding sheet music or writing, seated in front of a traditional portrait background of a curtain revealing a landscape in the distance; 10 x 8 in. with uneven, trimmed margins. The painting is inscribed on the verso in graphite: A painter's wife who boarded with my mother in the 1850s--could not pay board--so, gave my mother this picture of his wife. / Mrs. Laura Hewitt Burdick is daughter of Mrs. Hewitt 1939-now) / It was framed, etc. Condition: Board has been trimmed unevenly. Lower right corner is creased. Half-inch horizontal crease along right margin. Scattered small losses.
American (Illinois), ca 1850s. Oil on thin board, a portrait of a woman painted by an unidentified itinerant artist working in Illinois, the subject holding sheet music or writing, seated in front of a traditional portrait background of a curtain revealing a landscape in the distance; 10 x 8 in. with uneven, trimmed margins. The painting is inscribed on the verso in graphite: A painter's wife who boarded with my mother in the 1850s--could not pay board--so, gave my mother this picture of his wife. / Mrs. Laura Hewitt Burdick is daughter of Mrs. Hewitt 1939-now) / It was framed, etc. Condition: Board has been trimmed unevenly. Lower right corner is creased. Half-inch horizontal crease along right margin. Scattered small losses.
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