Family Mourning Portrait

American School, probably New England

Family Mourning Portrait
Unsigned, ca. 1850-1860
Mixed media; watercolors and oil on paper
13 ½” x 17”, 18 5/16” x 22” (frame)
Full condition report available upon request.
Provenance: Collection of Michael L. Laughlin, Aiken, South Carolina.
This mourning scene depicts a family standing and seated, framed within an ovoid surrounded by a pictorial landscape showcasing their land, farm, and residence, the bottom portion with foliage and flanking birds.
This recently discovered work is part of a known group of eight memorial pictures by this yet unidentified artist who was presumably from New England, where the other works were found.
For illustrations of two of the works mentioned above, see: M. & M. Karolik Collection of American Water Colors & Drawings, 1800-1875, Volume II (Boston, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1962), p. 199, cat. no., 1200, fig. 296, and Jean Lipman, Primitive American Painting (New York City, New York: Oxford University Press, 1942), plate 31.

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