Comprising three portrait miniatures, the first a Gentleman with black jacket, waistcoat and stock and white collar, with brown hair (ivory broken l.l.); the second a Lady in black dress with lace fichu and white lace collar, with red ringletted hair, attributed to Anna Claypoole Peale (1791-1878); the third a Gentleman, possibly Thomas T. Kinney, with black jacket, cream waistcoat, stock and collar, with curly brown hair swept forward, attributed to Henry Williams (1787-1830)

William Badger worked in New Haven, Connecticut from 1838 to 1840. Six miniatures ascribed to Badger are in the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford. (G and W, p.20).

The daughter of portrait miniaturist James Peale, Anna Claypoole Peale (1791-1878) was trained by her father and promoted by her uncle, Charles Willson Peale. Born in Philadelphia, Peale maintained a studio there and in Baltimore, and traveled to Washington, D.C. and Boston in executing portrait miniature commissions. Anna Claypoole Peale's work was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1814 to 1843, the Boston Atheneum, the Artist's Fund Society and at the Peale Museums in Baltimore and New York City. (Johnson, p. 159). See note to lot 145.