Portrait of a Boy of the Pell Family, c. 1798

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HENRI PIERRE (active c. 1790-1812)*
Portrait of a Boy of the Pell Family, c. 1798
inscribed on paper backing material to frame verso, Boy of the Pell Family by Henri Pierre
watercolor on ivory
47/8x41/8in. overall
in rectangular ebonized frame with rose-gold acorn-molded hanging mount and yellow metal bezel

Exhibited

New York City, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; and Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Tokens of Affection: The Portrait Miniature in America, 20 November 1990-10 February 1991; 29 March-16 June 1991; and 1 September-19 November 1991.

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Lot Essay

Pierre Henri was born in Paris but studied portrait miniature painting in London, possibly at one of the Royal Academy Schools. In approximately 1790, he left England for America where he worked in Richmond, Philadelphia and Charleston. (see Foskett, Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, vol, I (London, 1972), p. 323).

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