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Lot Essay
The sitter, Mrs. Edward Kitchen (nee Freake Wolcott), was born October 9, 1712 to Mary Freake (b. 1674) and Josiah Wolcott (b. 1658). Mary Freake is the child pictured in Mrs. Freake and Baby Mary in the collection of the Worcester Art Museum. These portraits, along with the portraits of Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary, hung in the Princeton, Massachusetts home of the current owners from whom the Worcester Art Museum acquired the portrait in 1963.
These portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kitchen are attributed to the Pierpont Limner, so named by the rendering of Reverend James Pierpont (Yale University Art Gallery) dated 1711. Pierpont's portrait is thought to have been done in Boston, and is inscribed with the date 1711. Like most portraits from this era, the sitter, not the painter is known. For another related painting attributed to this Limner see portrait of Caleb Heathcote (1666-1721), in Catalogue of American Portraits in the New York Historical Society (New Haven, 1974) vol. I, no. 898, p.344-5.
These portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kitchen are attributed to the Pierpont Limner, so named by the rendering of Reverend James Pierpont (Yale University Art Gallery) dated 1711. Pierpont's portrait is thought to have been done in Boston, and is inscribed with the date 1711. Like most portraits from this era, the sitter, not the painter is known. For another related painting attributed to this Limner see portrait of Caleb Heathcote (1666-1721), in Catalogue of American Portraits in the New York Historical Society (New Haven, 1974) vol. I, no. 898, p.344-5.