Lot 927: JANE ANTHONY DAVIS (1821-1855). PORTRAIT OF MARY ABBIGAIL BROWNING, OCT. 8TH 1844.

With rectangular cartouche inscribed and dated below. Watercolor, ink and pencil on heavy paper, 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches, sight. Signed By J.A. Davis, b.c. In original mahogany veneer frame, 11 x 9 inches. Mary Browning was born July 28, 1842 and died June 23, 1904; she married Amos T. Barnes in December 16, 1864 in Mystic, Connecticut. Provenance: Walters*Benisek; Northeast Auctions, August 1995, lot 422. Literature: Illustrated in A Loving Likeness, Supplement, p. 2. For a discussion of J.A. Davis and a similar portrait of Ellen Augusta Smith, see Arthur and Sybil Kern, J.A. Davis, Identity Reviewed, THE CLARION, Summer 1991, pp. 41-47.