Three Graces with Large Canary

SOLD

American School, probably New England.
Unsigned, ca. 1830-1850.
Oil and watercolor on Bristol artist board, (stamped l.l.)
14” x 17 ½”, 18 ½” x 23” with frame.
Excellent condition, examined outside of frame, with vibrant colors and very minor toning. No restoration visible under UV light examination. Displayed behind museum glass in a period lemon-gilt frame.
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Donald Moylan.
This yet unidentified artist has eight known works, which are all considered “memorial pictures,” to include: The New Bedford Memorial, in the permanent collection of the Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York, ex-collection, Jean Lipman; an untitled memorial held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, ex-collection Maxim Karolik (56.438); Woman and Children under a Canopy with Flags, given by Mrs. Frederick Thurston Mason in memory of her sister, Anna Phillips Stevenson to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania in 1914 (1914-365); the New Hampshire Memorial, purportedly discovered in Chocorua, New Hampshire and now owned privately in Boston; and the Boston Memorial, the whereabouts of which are currently unknown, likely housed in a private collection.
For illustrations of two of the works mentioned above, please 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.