Lot 666: * JOHN SHERBURNE BLUNT (1789 - 1835)

painted circa 1829-1830; in the original black-painted frame.

oil on wood panel

26 7/8 by 23in. 68.4 by 58.9cm

David Wheatcroft, Westboro, Massachusetts

The boy depicted standing near a covered foot stool with oranges and pieces of silver-and-coral jewelry, all tangible signs of wealth and prosperity.

For another Blunt portrait of two children in similar dress, now in the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, see Robert Bishop, The Borden Limner and His Contemporaries, cover illustration and p. iii, and The Clarion, Spring 1980, p. 22, fig. 2.