Lot 108: RUTH WHITTIER SHUTE AND SAMUEL ADDISON SHUTE 1803-1882, 1803-1836 PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG BOY WITH

RUTH WHITTIER SHUTE AND SAMUEL ADDISON SHUTE 1803-1882, 1803-1836 PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG BOY WITH DARK HAIR HOLDING A BLUE CAP AND STANDING IN A GRAPE ARBOR: HENRY O. WINCH

watercolor, pen and ink and pencil on paper

PROVENANCE

A sale at Sotheby's, The American Folk Art Collection of Frank and Karen Miele Sale, sale number 5143, lot 42, January 28, 1984
Stephen Score, Essex, Massachusetts
Steven Straw Co. Inc., Newburyport, Massachusetts
EXHIBITED

Littleton, New Hampshire, The White Mountain School, New England Folk Painters, September 1977, no. 63.
New York, The Museum of American Folk Art; The New York Historical Society, Small Folk: A Celebration of Childhood in American, December 1980-February 1981, no. 30.
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

Helen Kellogg, "Found: Two Lost American Painters," Antiques World (December 1978), no. 22, p. 40, illus.
CATALOGUE NOTE

Painted circa 1830: in what appears to be a period giltwood frame. Signed and dated, Painted October 13, 1832, by R.W. and S.A. Shute, Nashua, N.H. on the reverse.

26 by 18 3/4 in.<br><br>66 by 47.6cm