Lot 63: STURTEVANT HAMBLEN, (FL. CA. 1837-1856)

ROSY-CHEEKED YOUNG GIRL WEARING A LACE-TRIMMED WHITE DRESS AND PANTALOONS WITH A BASKET OF FLOWERS SEATED ON A STOOL ON A FLOWERED CARPET: 'A PORTRAIT OF ELLEN'

measurements
27.5 by 22.3 in.

alternate measurements
69.9 by 56.6 cm

signed on the child's left shoe S.J. Hamblen. Painted on what appears to be the original stretchers and in the original ogee-molded frame. A paper label affixed to the verso is inscribed The picture of Ellen hanging opposite the same B. Higgins given at same date by Emily M. Sherrick. Nina Fletcher Little's typed jelly label provides the following information. Portrait of Ellen. by Hamblen, Boston, 1840

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Sotheby's, New York, The Bertram K. Little and Nina Fletcher Little Collection, January 29, 1994, lot 258

EXHIBITED

Williamsburg, Virginia, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Land and Seascape as Observed by the Folk Artist, January 13-May 11, 1969, p. 42, illustrated

LITERATURE

Nina Fletcher Little, Little by Little, 1984, p. 115, fig. 149
Nina Fletcher Little, 'William Matthew Prior and Some of His Contemporaries,' The Maine Antiques Digest, April 1976, p. 19A, fig. 1