Lot 27: * RUTH WHITTIER SHUTE AND SAMUEL ADDISON SHUTE

painted circa 1830; in the original frame.

A MINIATURE PORTRAIT OF MISS ADELINE BARTLETT OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS

framed 5 1/4 by 4 3/4 in. 13.3 by 12.1 cm.

watercolor and pencil on paper

"Big Shute, Little Shute," Maine Antiques Digest, August 1997, p. 10-A

A Midwestern private collection

Northeast Auctions, Manchester, New Hampshire, August 3, 1997, lot 576

Miniature watercolor portraits on paper by the Shutes are extremely rare, with fewer than a handful known to exist. The most similar related example to the miniature portrait of Adeline Bartlett is one of an unidentified young woman in the collection of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center in Williamsburg (Virginia), illustrated in Beatrix T. Rumford, Gen. Ed., American Folk Portraits, Paintings and Drawings from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Boston, 1981, pp. 183-184, fig. 158.