Lot 160: PROPERTY OF A NEW ENGLAND PRIVATE COLLECTOR RUTH HENSHAW BASCOM 1772-1848 PORTRAIT OF LYDIA LUANA

PROPERTY OF A NEW ENGLAND PRIVATE COLLECTOR RUTH HENSHAW BASCOM 1772-1848 PORTRAIT OF LYDIA LUANA THOMPSON OF PHILLIPSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

cut paper with pastel and pencil mounted against colored paper

PROVENANCE

The portrait descended in the family of the sitter to the present owner, whose family acquired the home of Ruth Henshaw Bascom and her minister husband in Phillipston, Massachusetts in 1950.
CATALOGUE NOTE

Lydia Luana Thompson was the daughter of Daniel Thompson and Lydia Sawyer; born October 5, 1819 in Phillipston. She married Harrison Ward (son of Nahum Ward and Dinah Rich (December 28, 1841. She died April 30, 1898 at Athol, Massachusetts.

15 1/2 by 11 1/2 in.<br><br>39.8 by 29.2cm