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Lot Essay
This rare portrait is virtually identical to an unsigned portrait of Rubens Peale by Raphaelle Peale, now in the collection of the National Museum of American Art and it is only the second known example of this type of profile portrait made by Raphaelle Peale; illustrated in Charles Elam, The Peale Family (Detroit, 1967), pp 112- 113 and in Ellen Miles, St. Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America (Washington, 1994), p.112. The locks of hair that accompany this painting were housed within the original Moroccan leather frame; the dark brown lock tied with a similar ribbon as depicted in the portrait is likely to have been taken circa 1805. The gray lock is likely to have been inserted when the portrait was framed along with the note, in 1852.
Little is known of Henry Lunt, Jr. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1776 to 2nd Lt.Henry Lunt of the Continental Navy (1753-1805) and Sarah Orcutt (1755-1838), he married Mary Green Pearson in 1801. He died in 1859, in Boston, Massachusetts.
As noted, his father 2nd Lt. Henry Lunt served with distinction under John Paul Jones on the Bon Homme Richard, the Alliance, and the Ariel. The first Henry Lunt (d.1662) arrived from England in 1634 on the Mary and John with his wife, Ann. The Lunts were original settlers of Newburyport and together began one of America's founding families. The Lunt family has long been prominent in Essex County, Massachusetts.
Little is known of Henry Lunt, Jr. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1776 to 2nd Lt.Henry Lunt of the Continental Navy (1753-1805) and Sarah Orcutt (1755-1838), he married Mary Green Pearson in 1801. He died in 1859, in Boston, Massachusetts.
As noted, his father 2nd Lt. Henry Lunt served with distinction under John Paul Jones on the Bon Homme Richard, the Alliance, and the Ariel. The first Henry Lunt (d.1662) arrived from England in 1634 on the Mary and John with his wife, Ann. The Lunts were original settlers of Newburyport and together began one of America's founding families. The Lunt family has long been prominent in Essex County, Massachusetts.