Portrait of Eliza Ann Farrar

Details

ASAHEL LYNDE POWERS (1813-1843)
Portrait of Eliza Ann Farrar
the stretcher labeled Eliza Ann Farrar daughter of Jacob and Achsah Fisk Farrar born May 6 1814 painted by Asahel Powers Springfield Vermont circa 1830. She married Isaac M. Barrett on November 10, 1836.
oil on canvas
33 x 24¾ in.

Provenance

George Abraham, Granville, Massachusetts, 1961
Bertram K. Little and Nina Fletcher Little, Brookline, Massachusetts
Sold, Sotheby's, New York, 29 January 1994, lot 101

Literature

Nina Fletcher Little, Little By Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts (New York, 1984), frontispiece.
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Asahel Powers: Painter of Vermont Faces, (Williamsburg, VA, October 14-December 2, 1973), pp. 34-35, figs. 31, 32.

Exhibited

Williamsburg, Virginia, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Asahel Powers: Painter of Vermont Faces, 14 October-2 December, 1973.

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Lot Essay

This portrait of Eliza Ann Farrar was one of five of the Farrar family of Rindge, New Hampshire in the collection of Nina Fletcher Little and Bertram K. Little. These portraits include her brother, Abel Fisk Farrar, her parents, Achsah Fisk Farrar and Jacob Farrar, as well as an aunt. Other members of the Farrar family painted by Powers include: Allethenia Fisk Farrar, the youngest daughter of Achsah Fisk Farrar and Jacob Farrar, as well as Allethenia Fisk, sister of Achsah Fisk Farrar. Eliza Ann Farrar and Abel Fisk Farrar were offered at Sotheby's on January 29, 1994 as lots 101 and 102. Their parents, Achsah Fisk Farrar and Jacob Farrar were offered at Sotheby's on October 22, 1994 as lots 819 and 820.

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